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  • Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora

    Secularism, Religion, Representations

    Edited by Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema.Contributors ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • 9 Gold Bullets

    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #12

    by HeavenLakePress, Christopher G. Moore ...
    Series Book 12 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In 9 Gold Bullets, the twelfth novel in Christopher G. Moore's Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series, a priceless collection of gold bullet coins from the reign of Rama V has vanished—along with a prominent Thai collector. When Bangkok police trace a link to Calvino's childhood friend Josh Stein, now ensnared by a ruthless Russian client, the case draws Calvino into a web of ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Short Story

    Western and Asian Traditions

    by Gulnaz Fatma ...
    Series series World Voices
    Worldwide Appreciation of the Short Story Form Spans Cultures and Centuries!In this concise volume, Gulnaz Fatma traces the short story from its origins in fables, ancient poetry, and tales such as The Arabian Nights, to its modern form in the early American stories of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, and then through the twentieth century and throughout the world. The elements of what makes a short ... Read more

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  • Wild Kids

    Two Novels About Growing Up

    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    by Ta-chun Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • What Is Modernity?

    Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi

    Translated by Richard Calichman ...
    by Yoshimi Takeuchi ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchi's writings ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Illuminati :A Transnational Journal of Literature, Language and Culture Studies - VI

    by Prof Neeru ...
    Literature of the New MillenniumLiterature of New Millennium, containing articles of academic criticism that explore the various issues, questions and debates raised by the contemporary literature. This special issue was designed to help the readers (research scholars in particular) in assessing and formulating their point of view about the bright possibilities and dark contour of literature ... Read more

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  • Figuring Korean Futures

    Children’s Literature in Modern Korea

    by Dafna Zur ...
    This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart, the perception that the child's body and mind were transparent and knowable, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A History of Pain

    Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China

    Edited by X. Zhong, B. Wang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the context of capitalist globalization. By rethinking socialism, literature, and culture in relation to the intellectual and cultural trends since the start of the reform and by debating the rise of the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English

    Strategies and Sources

    by H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney, Liorah Golomb, Melissa S. Van Vuuren ...
    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literature of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have been addressed. This volume offers guidance for those researching the postcolonial literature of the former British ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Summoning the Dead

    Essays on Ron Rash

    Edited by Randall Wilhelm, Zackary Vernon ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    The first book-length examination of the award-winning author of poetry and fiction firmly rooted in AppalachiaSince his dramatic appearance on the southern literary stage with his debut novel, One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash has continued a prolific outpouring of award-winning poetry and fiction. His status as a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list, coupled with his impressive critical ... Read more

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