South Southeast Asian category: 181 books
The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa
A Critical Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa: A Critical Evaluation is an attempt to discover and analyze Bapsi Sidhwa's concern with the subjective truth of human personality as it finds adequate expression in her novels. Sidhwa's novels presents socio-cultural aspect of a minority community, i.e., Parsees, struggling...
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s...
by P. Gopichand, P. Nagasuseela
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Indian writers with artistic skill wove many interesting things into the fabric of their creative writings. The telling of the tale is interesting, and emits a unique aroma that captured the readers of all sections in India and abroad. The fictional world of the Indian Writers in English reflects...
by P. Gopichand, P. Nagasuseela
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Indian Fiction in English developed rapidly and also became a popular genre in Indian Literature in English and in World literature. With its vast variety of themes, subject matter, narrative technique and style it has won a unique place in the hearts of the literary lovers. The changing relationships...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery,...
Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
Animalizing the Native, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy...
by K.V. Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Join us on an epic journey to India!
K.V. Dominic, one of India's leading contemporary English poets, takes us on a trip to India in this constellation of short stories. His love for his native country is exposed through stories that cover a range of humanistic concerns, including women's empowerment,...
Culture of Encounters
Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain...
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
Philosophical Musings for Meaningful Life
An Analysis of K.V. Dominic's Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Inside one of Contemporary India's most Influential Poets
The twenty-four papers in Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life study the poetry collections Winged Reason (2010), Write Son, Write (2011), and Multicultural Symphony (2014), of Dr. K.V. Dominic and reveal his humanistic values...
Foucault and the Kamasutra
The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
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 "Kamasutra", Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and...
An Exciting Future
The Story Of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Lek was born the eldest daughter to a lower middle-class family of rice farmers in northern Thailand. When her father died young and unexpectedly, the family found out that the farm was in hock to the bank.
They had to do something radical to save it, but the only idea that they could come...
Shaping Indian Diaspora
Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent....
by Nyla Ali Khan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.