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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280223Author Shusaku EndoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic,...

Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese...

The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024095Author KangxiFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an interest in German cinema. Each of the fourteen chapters focuses on one key film, from the groundbreaking horror...

Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional...

No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some...

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person...

The first edition of the letters of Denis Devlin, Irish poet, translator and diplomat, this volume brings together a personal and professional correspondence that has until now been scattered across archives in Europe and North America. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBurton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan:...

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Featuring detailed studies of selected masterpieces, it adopts a thematic-comparative approach. By developing...

This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. The...

Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene...

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Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres...

Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. She had been permitted the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727119305Author Ashutosh I PFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781795691284Author Mubashar AltafFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Weaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721215256Author Sripada Kameswara RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645603696Author Sarat Chandra RathFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781674135090Author Tina R KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384281090Author Open Window A Feminist Research CenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lies and Big Feet.Publisher Lies and Big Feet.Weight(grams)...

This is the first book-length study to present the alternative version found in Indonesian literature of the events of 1965-1966, and through this demonstrates that the concerns and perceptions of Indonesian writers differ sharply from those of...

Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the...

2023 marks the 60th year since the formation of the Federation of Malaysia, comprising the Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak – and Singapore. For Malaysians, 1963 is of profound national significance. For Singaporeans, the more memorable year might be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622460298Author Chin-U NamFormat PaperbackImprint Homa & Sekey BooksPublisher Homa & Sekey BooksWeight(grams) 168g

Terror and Reconciliation explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka's quarter-century long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391037697Author Syed AteequllahFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Esbaat PublicationsPublisher Esbaat PublicationsWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727338867Author Loc Phu DuongFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358721096Author Idara ChaharsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Self PublisherPublisher Self PublisherWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357941198Author Editorial board, V&S PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 175g