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  • Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation

    Judging More than a Book by its Cover

    by Lisa Lau, E. Dawson Varughese ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics

    The Oriental Other Within

    Edited by Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism is grounded on how the cultural East comes to terms with an orientalised East.This book ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Marriage Tree

    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #14

    by HeavenLakePress, Christopher G. Moore ...
    Series Book 14 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In The Marriage Tree, Christopher G. Moore delivers a haunting addition to his Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series. Set in the heart of Thailand, this atmospheric thriller explores the intersection of crime, mysticism, and human suffering.When a brilliant woman's bizarre "marriage of the dead" ceremonies lead to a series of ritualistic killings, private investigator Vincent ... Read more

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  • Missing In Rangoon

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino's case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend and protector Colonel Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an order to cut off the supply of cold pills from Myanmar used for the ... Read more

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  • The Wallet of Kai Lung

    by Ernest Bramah ...
    Series series Ernest Bramah Collection
    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Bramah Ernest, ‘The Wallet of Kai Lung.’The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China.Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot ... Read more

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  • Beware of the Chinese Mama

    Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso

    by Melissa Yuan-Innes, Melissa Yi, Melissa Yin ...
    "Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend.That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages.And now, wouldn't you know it I am a Chinese/Canadian/doctor/mother myself. So now, instead of grinding my teeth, I can write about my mom ... Read more

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  • Romancing the East

    A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai

    by Jerry Hopkins ...
    Profiling individual, legendary authors, best-selling author Jerry Hopkins combines his research and his own experiences as a longtime expatriate with an intimate knowledge of Asia and offers us a unique perspective on the impact of Eastern culture in Western literature.From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not ... Read more

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  • Envisioning The Tale of Genji

    Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

    Edited by Haruo Shirane ...
    Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on a variety of genres and fields, including modern ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Yearning

    Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature

    by A. Sen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Translation as Discovery and Other essays on Indian Literature in English Translation

    by Sujit Mukherjee ...
    The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any developed literary culture, and argues that translation into English has made it possible for an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • There a Petal Silently Falls

    Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun

    by Ch'oe Yun ...
    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Redeeming the Kamasutra

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement ... Read more

    $18.09 USD