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Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier Treat 9780226811772
RRP: $103.20$100.12In this study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, John Whittier Treat argues that we have much to learn from Japanese writers and artists about the substance and meaning of the nuclear age. Treat recounts the controversial... -
Chinese Narrative Poetry: The Late Han Through T'ang Dynasties by Dore J. Levy 9780822308638
RRP: $86.43$73.22Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered... -
Hello, My Name is Jumbo by Yasushi Muraki 9789881915450
$3.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881915450Author Yasushi MurakiPage Count 24Imprint MineditionPublisher Minedition -
Srngara-Prakasa of Bhoja: v. 1 by Bhoja 9780674833401
RRP: $108.30$87.86Based on manuscripts of this treatise on classical Sanskirt poetics. It was composed by the famous 11th-century King Bhoja of Malwa, a patron of traditional learning. It is interesting as a text because of the theoretical treatment of the erotic... -
The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction by Anthony Hood Chambers 9780674796744
RRP: $38.64$29.92At the time of his death in 1965 at the age of seventy-nine, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro had been writing fiction, plays, essays, poems, and translations almost without interruption for more than fifty-five years. In this series of meditations on seven of... -
Sleeping, Sinning, Falling by Mutsuo Takahashi 9780872862685
RRP: $15.47$12.86Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books... -
Inscribing the Other by Sander L. Gilman 9780803221345
$62.80Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among... -
Pining Wind: A Cycle of No Plays by Royall Tyler 9780939657179
RRP: $11.60$9.31"Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of noh in the original... -
The Scar by K.A. Gunasekaran 9789354428623
$25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354428623Author K.A. GunasekaranFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
The Grip of Change by K. Sivakami 9789354426902
$24.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354426902Author K. SivakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
The Scar by K.A. Gunasekaran 9789354426810
$17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354426810Author K.A. GunasekaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 by Kirk A. Denton 9780804725590
RRP: $63.21$54.44This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the 55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition to the... -
Epic in India by Tutun Mukherjee 9789354423765
RRP: $71.60$71.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354423765Author Tutun MukherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination by Sk Sagir Ali 9781666951479
RRP: $104.49$94.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666951479Author Sk Sagir AliFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches by Li-Chun Hsiao 9781498569118
RRP: $38.70$35.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498569118Author Li-Chun HsiaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Tawada Yoko: On Writing and Rewriting by Doug Slaymaker 9781498590068
RRP: $45.15$39.93This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in both German and Japanese. The contributors of this... -
Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives by Ramu Nagappan 9780295985572
RRP: $33.53$28.43Who has the right to speak about trauma? As cultural products, narratives of social suffering paradoxically release us from responsibility while demanding that we examine our own connectedness to the circumstances that produce suffering. As a result, the... -
Ramayana by William Buck 9780520383388
RRP: $19.34$16.05Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience, across so many radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince... -
Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film by Christopher Hanscom 9780231208499
RRP: $32.25$24.74In what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with this question since the dawn of modern literature in Korea. Advocates of social engagement have typically focused on realist texts,... -
Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film by Christopher Hanscom 9780231208482
RRP: $129.00$98.83In what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with this question since the dawn of modern literature in Korea. Advocates of social engagement have typically focused on realist texts,... -
The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan: Cinggis Qayan-U Altan Tobci by Leland L Rogers 9783447060745
RRP: $69.66$68.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447060745Author Leland L RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 2850g -
Iranian Languages and Literatures of Central Asia: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present by E. Grassi 9782910640439
RRP: $64.50$64.36Compared with numerous critical studies in Central Asian history, politics and society published during recent years, modern languages and literary traditions of Central Asia have received less scholarly attention in the West. If we... -
Uygur Buddhist Literature by J Elverskog 9782503505442
RRP: $74.82$73.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503505442Author J ElverskogFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 449g -
Phong Nha, the Making of an American Smile by Tammy Nguyen 9781946433411
RRP: $12.90$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433411Author Tammy NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 58g -
Playing to the Camera - Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema by Thomas F. Cohen 9781906660239
RRP: $70.95$56.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660239Author Thomas CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 164mm... -
Playing to the Camera - Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema by Thomas F. Cohen 9781906660222
RRP: $23.21$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660222Author Thomas CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance by Rachel Gregory Fox 9781802075373
RRP: $32.24$28.91Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and... -
Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures by Rachel V. Harrison 9781783480135
RRP: $166.41$150.63Disturbing 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... -
Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms by Wilt L. Idema 9781603848138
RRP: $37.40$30.81No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180-220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu... -
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays by Stephen H. West 9781603842013
RRP: $64.50$54.43This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250-1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa 9781603841979
RRP: $56.75$45.36The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea by Dafna Zur 9781503601680
RRP: $81.27$68.94This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new... -
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan 9781479884353
RRP: $36.11$30.52After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives,... -
Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism by Harold Coward 9781438475769
RRP: $27.26$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438475769Author Harold CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
A Day within Days by Liu Hongbin 9780900055102
RRP: $8.97$8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900055102Author Liu HongbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Ambit BooksPublisher Ambit Books -
Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China by Mark Bender 9780872208506
RRP: $51.59$41.36Butterfly Mother is a collection of epic songs from the rich oral tradition of the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China. These poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of a world in which everything is... -
Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China by Mark Bender 9780872208490
RRP: $20.63$16.85Butterfly Mother is a collection of epic songs from the rich oral tradition of the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China. These poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of a world in which everything is... -
Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism by Tani E. Barlow 9780822313762
RRP: $125.13$107.08Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews... -
Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea by Jin-kyung Lee 9780816651269
RRP: $30.95$26.33Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a... -
Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism by Miryam Sas 9780804734134
RRP: $149.64$127.12How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early twentieth century, focusing on Surrealist...