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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791468715Author Leela PrasadFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their...

Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356402720Author Sreenath V.S.Format HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical...

How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it...

How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book looks for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India -from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354359927Author Prasanta ChakravartyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304637Author Lawrence McCreaFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

The contributions to this book amply demonstrate the richness, vitality, and complexity of the colonial transactions between Britain and India over the last two centuries, and they do so by approaching the topic from a specific perspective: by...

The study of Sanskrit grammar is widely recognized as one of Indias great intellectual traditions. The most famous school of grammar was the one based on Pa?inis A??adhyayi, a work dating from perhaps the fifth or fourth century BC and consisting of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356400085Author Arka DebFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354353352Author Someshwar SatiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354353383Author Shweta KhilnaniFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings -- memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane -- published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India or in the diaspora. It offers a new perspective on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447103398Author Heidrun BrucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 295g

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness,...

The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the...

Literature for children is a distinctive achievement of the Bengali language. In it, we get numerous illustrations of primers that are meant to initiate reading and writing among children, poems and nursery rhymes, fables and fairy tales, prose pieces...

This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings in Bengali. With a substantive introduction by Amiya P. Sen identifying various stages in the evolution of Tagore's religious thoughts, beginning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356995Author Rita BanerjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster...

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United...

Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable" caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from...

Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women's autobiographical writing from South Asia...

Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an...

Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's ethnic conflict. By focussing on two distinctive and representative...

In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question "What is created?" after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition...

Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791468722Author Leela PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of...

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl, and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and...

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...

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358569629Author Ak GandhiFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! Publishing

During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful print culture emerged that articulated alternatives to dominant national narratives. Through what Aakriti Mandhwani defines as middlebrow...