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  • The Speculative Route

    Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa

    Edited by Merve Tabur, Sami Ahmad Khan ...
    Series series Studies in Global Genre Fiction
    The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter- and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences. Conceptualizing science fiction and fantasy (SFF) as a mode rather than a genre, this volume challenges the putative boundaries between literary and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Being Pakistani

    Society, Culture and the Arts

    by Raza Rumi ...
    How different is Pakistan's culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that culture in Pakistan is not particularly unique to the nation, but rather a part of the cultural identities shared by South Asians. From the songs of Kabir and the ballads of Bulleh Shah to the cult of the feminine in the Sindh region, Rumi takes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Global Novel

    Writing the World in the 21st Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization?In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century’s best-known writers—including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante—and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected.From climate change and sex trafficking to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Shahnameh

    The Persian Epic as World Literature

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

    Essays by Hamid Dabashi

    Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan ...
    "Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-Modern Society

    by Manu Mangattu ...
    Postmodernism has become the Holy Grail that charts 'living' in the present world through speculations, deliberations and negotiations. This collection of scholarly research articles map our dialogues with the intersections that twenty-first century society offers to individuals. Mapping the changing landscape of the Post-modern world is essential as man will not be talked out of finding meaning ... Read more

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  • Hindi Cinema

    Repeating the Subject

    by Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Anxiety of Erasure

    Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings

    by Hanadi Al-Samman ...
    Series series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
    Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried female ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Identities in Transit

    The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures

    by Lahoussine Hamdoune, Bouchra Benlemlih, Rachid Acim, Sihem Arfaoui, Shibani Banerjee, Khadija Belhiah, Yu Min Claire Chen, Laureano Corces, Boutheina Khaldi0, Azize Kour1, Tara Moore2, Lhoussain Simour3, S¸emsettin Tabur4, Lava Asaad5, Paul Jahshan6 ...
    Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Playing with Religion in Digital Games

    by Oliver Steffen, Peter F. Likarish, Brenda S. Gardemour Walter, Nathan Abrams, Xenia Zeiler, Jason Anthony, Vit Sisler, Michael Waltemathe, Kevin Schut, Shanny Luft, Rachel Wagner, Rabis Gregory ...
    Series series Digital Game Studies
    Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and Halo, many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the storyline. Playing with Religion in Digital Games explores the increasingly complex relationship between ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Pakistan Desires

    Queer Futures Elsewhere

    Edited by Omar Kasmani ...
    Drawing on history, anthropology, literature, law, art, film, and performance studies, the contributors to Pakistan Desires invite reflection on what meanings adhere to queerness in Pakistan. They illustrate how amid conditions of straightness, desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making. Among other topics, the contributors analyze gender transgressive performances in Pakistani film, piety ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Indian Science Fiction

    Patterns, History and Hybridity

    by Suparno Banerjee ...
    Series series New Dimensions in Science Fiction
    This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus