Asian category: 13860 books
The Indian Graphic Novel
Nation, history and critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre’s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretical...
Untouchable Fictions
Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
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 Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored...
Recentering Globalization
Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2002
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long...
by Eric Boudot, Chris Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This groundbreaking book documents the weaving traditions and textiles of one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse areas, placing them in a regional context. Based on more than a decade of firsthand study in the field, the authors record the traditions of Miao, Yao, Buyi, Dong, Zhuang, Maonan, Dai...
Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia
Perspectives from Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East...
Asian States
Beyond the Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short...
Fungible Life
Experiment in the Asian City of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers...
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
A Concise Typological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, to this diverse language area. Written...
Chicken and Rice
Fresh and Easy Southeast Asian Recipes From a London Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Southeast Asian food is fresh, easy and full of unforgettable flavours: Chicken and Rice will show you just how simple it is to make at home.
Shu Han Lee moved to London from Singapore as a student. Homesick and hungry, she started teaching herself to cook the food she'd grown up with - Singaporean...
Transpacific Attachments
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The figure of the Chinese sex worker—who provokes both disdain and desire—has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism,...
Indian Genre Fiction
Pasts and Future Histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way...
Africa in the Indian Imagination
Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality,...