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  • Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

    by Chitra Sankaran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental humanities. The first book offering an important and relevant Asian perspective to this hitherto exclusively westcentric exchange, it focuses on one of the influential theoretical fields to emerge in recent years, ‘material ecocriticism,’ which engages with the mind/matter value-dualism. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

    by Chitra Sankaran ...
    In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Southeast Asian Ecocriticism

    Theories, Practices, Prospects

    by Tran Ngoc Hieu, Dang Thi Thai Ha, Richard Li, Wasinrat Nualsiri, Ignasi Ribó, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon, Jason Paolo R. Telles, Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng, Li-Ru Lu, Chitra Sankaran ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South Asian contexts and, particularly, to Chinese and Indian cultural productions, less emphasis has ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

    Edited by Rajesh Rai, Chitra Sankaran ...
    Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction

    Edited by Chitra Sankaran ...
    Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Symbols and Meaning

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  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

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  • The World's Religions: The Study of Religion, Traditional and New Religion

    Edited by Peter Clarke, Stewart Sutherland ...
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  • Orality: the Quest for Meanings

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    This collection assembles significant research papers on the concept of orality, theoretical approaches, and oral traditions juxtaposed with writing, culture, and folklore. Many of the essays also deal with issues of gender in oral cultures like those of Northeast India. The collection serves as an introduction to the varied ways in which the analysis of oral traditions has revitalized the quest ... Read more

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  • Multispecies Modernity

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    by Sundhya Walther ...
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