South Southeast Asian category: 181 books
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...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
The Great Unravelling Trilogy, as this Calvino trilogy may be called, is about the desperation and hope of individuals seeking freedom who find themselves perilously constrained in Southeast Asia, where human rights and liberty are negatively geared by big men in power.
It is safe to say that...
Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature...
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...
Extreme Poetry
The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then...
K.V. Dominic Essential Readings
Poems about Social Justice, Women's Rights, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
K. V. Dominic Essential Readings gathers for the first time the three most important works of poetry from this shining new light of contemporary Indian verse in English: Winged Reason, Write Son, Write and Multicultural Symphony. A fourth collection of 22 previously unpublished poems round out a complete...
Another Asia
Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws...
The Flight of Love
A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Venkatanatha
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled his lost beloved, he began to plead with the...
by Yvette Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings.
Poetics, Plays, and Performances
The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan...
Fauji Banta Singh
and other stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Riveting stories from the heart of the Vancouver Sikh experience. Set among people who emigrated in the late twentieth century, facing racial animosity and economic insecurity, and moving forward as their lives became more settled, Fauji Banta Singh gives us rare glimpses into the private...
Tellings and Texts
Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some...
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre
Thumri Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...
The Postsecular Imagination
Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked...