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  • Azaleas

    A Book of Poems

    de Kim Sowol ...
    Traducido por David McCann ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known poets. His work is a delightful and sophisticated blend of the images, tonalities, and rhythms of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

    An Autobiographical Novel

    Traducido por Stephen Epstein, Young-nan Yu ...
    de Wan-suh Park ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small ... Leer más

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  • Sirens of the Western Shore

    The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature

    de Indra Levy ...
    Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and theater.Levy traces the lineage of the ... Leer más

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  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    de Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Leer más

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  • The Promise of the Foreign

    Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

    In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their ... Leer más

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  • Britain Through Muslim Eyes

    Literary Representations, 1780-1988

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988). ... Leer más

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  • Figures of Resistance

    Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist ... Leer más

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  • Far Beyond the Field

    Haiku by Japanese Women

    Edición de Makoto Ueda ...
    Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen-syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras. At the ... Leer más

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  • The City Trilogy

    Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather

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    de Hsi-kuo Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic ... Leer más

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  • Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

    de Benzi Zhang ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.Asian diaspora poetry in North America is a rich body of poetic works that not only provide valuable material for us to understand the lives ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Masculinity Besieged?

    Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

    de Xueping Zhong ...
    In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity.Before the 1990s onslaught of ... Leer más

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  • Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing

    Edición de Devaleena Das, Sanjukta Dasgupta ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial ... Leer más

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