Asian category: 13860 books
Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel
Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1993
Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises...
by Prakash M. Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The present study of Arun joshi's novels is a humble attempt to assign the novelist his due place among the Indian writers in English. For this a revaluation of his novels is necessary and efforts have been made to deal with all the major aspects of the novelist's achievements but the focus is centred...
Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape...
Remains of Spring
A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
An idyllic Naga village surrounded by misty hills, Hoyat is located in the No Man’s Land between India and Burma. When Atanu reaches here to begin a new life, he is stunned to see the entire village burnt down. Life in this war zone is a ceaseless cycle of resurrection from the ashes. Yet its people...
T.V. Reddy's Fleeting Bubbles
An Indian Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Prof. Ramesh, with his thorough knowledge of the Western and Indian poetics, as well as the culture of the land is the right person to explain and interpret the poems of T. Vasudeva Reddy's Fleeting Bubbles. This collection of poems holds a mirror as it were to the existing social situations in India....
Ecocriticism in Taiwan
Identity, Environment, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest...
Cold War Ruins
Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left...
Vietnam's Lost Revolution
Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm's presidency, Civic...
Mahābhārata (anonyme)
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le Mahābhārata, ou la « Grande (Guerre) des Bhāratas », est la plus vaste œuvre connue de la littérature hindoue : ses dix-neuf livres ne comptent pas moins de cent vingt mille versets. Immense compilation de récits...
by Lee Sook Ching
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
With more than 170 authentic Malaysian recipes, you can now savour some of the best Southeast Asian delights in your own home. This worthy companion of both novice and seasoned cooks has an extensive spread of Chinese, Malay and Indian recipes. Learn to whip up classic favourites from simple fare such...
Two Dreams in One Bed
Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park...
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as manifest...
Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods
The arts of reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that...
Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway
Narratives of History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese...