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Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan by Rakhshan Rizwan
RRP: £39.99£35.06Kashmiri 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... -
The Tubingen Tulu Manuscript: Two South Indian Oral Epics Collected in the 19th Century by Heidrun Bruckner
RRP: £62.00£57.78Apologies 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 -
Foucault and the Kamasutra: The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India Sanjay K. Gautam 9780226348445
RRP: £35.00£33.91The 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 "Kamasutra",... -
The Gopal-Rakhal Dialectic - Colonialism and Children`s Literature in Bengal by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
£56.95Literature 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... -
India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity by Rita Banerjee
£93.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356995Author Rita BanerjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature Manav Ratti 9781138822375
RRP: £53.99£46.87The 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... -
Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature by Christin Hoene
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by Toral Jatin Gajarawala
RRP: £23.99£20.84Untouchable 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... -
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia by Anshu Malhotra
RRP: £89.00£77.22Many 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... -
Reading the Mahavamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History by Kristin Scheible
RRP: £55.00£42.91Vamsa 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... -
Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka - Discourses of Cartography, History and Translation in Selected Works by Michael Ondaatje by Paola Brusasco
RRP: £29.90£24.10Paola 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... -
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora by Kavita Daiya
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 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... -
Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962 by Gal Gvili
RRP: £25.00£19.59Beginning 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... -
Gender and Story in South India by Leela Prasad
RRP: £24.78£21.61Apologies 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 by Lee Spinks
RRP: £19.99£17.82Michael 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... -
Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction by Maryam Mirza
£27.21The 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... -
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within Lisa Lau (Keele University, UK) 9781138844162
RRP: £43.99£38.44Orientalism 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... -
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration by Priyamvada Gopal 9780199544387
£103.98The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often... -
Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture by Ulka Anjaria 9781439916643
RRP: £15.99£14.24In an age of social media and reality television, reading and consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fictions. Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined... -
Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis by Lee Siegel
RRP: £17.00£16.68Listen 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... -
Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English: Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Indianness Dr E. Dawson Varughese 9781350241107
RRP: £85.00£72.25Exploring expressions of ‘Indianness’ buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to ‘belong’ to an India of ‘now’ and what it might mean to belong to multiple... -
Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East Professor or Dr. Varghese Mathai 9781501388538
RRP: £28.99£24.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South Ben Jamieson Stanley 9781517915803
RRP: £23.99£20.39The role of food and hunger in contemporary South African and Indian environmental writing From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn’t) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating,... -
Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature Gregory Goulding 9781438499598
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499598Author Gregory GouldingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture Mukti Lakhi Mangharam 9781350200852
RRP: £28.99£24.64While globalization is often credited with the eradication of ‘traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the Indian economy in the 1990s has led to a decline in freedom for many female, Dalit, and lower class Indians... -
Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South Ben Jamieson Stanley 9781517915797
RRP: £100.00£85.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.