South category: 6019 books
Speaking of the Self
Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
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. Expanding the definition of what kinds of writing can...
Colonial Encounter
Telugu–English Literary and Cultural Interface
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book focuses on transactions between English and Telugu through a study of translations and related works published from about the early-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century. Moving beyond Edward Said’s theoretical paradigms which suggest that these interfaces were driven by imperial...
by Keith A. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers;...
Beyond The Silver River
South American Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
During the five years Jimmy Burns was based in Buenos Aires, which resulted in his award-winning study of the Falklands War and its aftermath, The Land That Lost Its Heroes, he also embarked on further-flung journeys in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. 'Each South American country...
In the Shade of the Golden Palace
Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention...
Sakuntala
Texts, Readings, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her assertiveness...
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...
by Major Rob B. McClary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The United States’ current strategic environment is increasingly complex, with security, economic, and humanitarian interests around the world. Consequently, the United States’ military may be called upon at any time to perform missions ranging from peacekeeping to total war, in environments ranging...
Violence in a Time of Liberation
Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast. He examines an incident that occurred at a South African gold mine at the moment of the 1994 elections...
by John George Maydon
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Field-Marshal French is best known for his military services during the First World War; however, his military service stretches back through to his commands in the Boer War. In his campaigns with the newly formed cavalry division he was to receive much acclaim and praise for his adroit handling of...
by Brother Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book reveals exactly how we are enslaved and how we may break the shackles and gain our freedom. After all, only you can own yourself; no one else can.
Backed up by meticulous research, this book will reveal all the ways that we are enslaved and controlled from banking and money to maritime law...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature
Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.
Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and...
Improvising Medicine
An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge...
Liberation Diaries
Reflections on 20 Years of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Told from the perspective of the everyday person, this book is a compilation of 38 essays written by South Africans reflecting on the journey of 20 years of democracy, against expectations, aspirations, and outcomes. Contributors of different demographic backgrounds and ideological persuasions were...