South Southeast Asian category: 181 books
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...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics
The Oriental Other Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Orientalism 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 based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism...
by Christin Hoene
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This 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 Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's...
Arranging Marriage
Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage...
by Yumna Siddiqi, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives...
by Chris Baker (Translator), Pasuk Phongpaichit (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine.
Written in lively...
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows...
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...
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
Commerce with the Universe
Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and nonfictional,...
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...
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...