South Southeast Asian category: 181 books

This book examines the varied influences and accomplishments of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine, the first Indian magazine established and edited by an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written by women, for women. Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture...

Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One of the reasons behind this is contribution to this variety by litterateurs from all the major linguistic...

"Write My Son, Write" is K. V. Dominic's longest poem, in 21 sections taken from his collection of poems entitled Write Son, Write. Dominic unabashedly tackles every-day issues of India such as the social injustice of poverty, man's crass exploitation of natural resources that ought to belong...

A broken family was what Jenn grew up to know. Separated from her beloved mother by her jealous step-father, she grew up with her only other family member - her grandma. Longing for love, she stumbled through life but suffered from one heartbreak after another. Her frail body finally could no longer...

In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream...

M algré les écoles et les groupements, l’art contemporain est avant tout l’expression de l’individu. Le XIXe siècle nous a habitués à concevoir l’art comme une manifestation de pure liberté, se suffisant à elle-même, et, bien avant les théoriciens de l’art pour l’art, la Critique...

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 ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic...

The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography....

Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the...

Savant Singh (1694�1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was...

The genre referred to as the Indian short story in English is more expansive and faithful to the nuances of a multicultural, diverse nation like India than the Indian novel in English. This genre has produced abundant creative variety but limited critical appraisal.The Indian Short Story in English,...

This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known...

Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises...

The present study of Arun joshi's novels is a humble attempt to assign the novelist his due place among the Indian writers in English. For this a revaluation of his novels is necessary and efforts have been made to deal with all the major aspects of the novelist's achievements but the focus is centred...