Southeast category: 2400 books

Phuket has much to tempt the visitor, with its fabulous mix of tropical beaches, buzzing nightlife and fascinating temples. Berlitz Pocket Guide Phuket is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that the island and surrounding region...

Fourteen stimulating literary works that shine a new light on Singapore’s first foreign minister and one of its most eloquent and farsighted leaders—the late S. Rajaratnam. Celebrated as one of Singapore’s founding fathers, very little has been said of his literary prowess. The seven short stories,...

"Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend. That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages. And now, wouldn't you know...

Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial. In...

Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the...

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,...

Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Herself...

The present volume is a comprehensive analytical study of the plays and theatrical art of Vijay Tendulkar with the focus on the process of decolonization of Indian theatre, Indian English drama moved in the direction of exploring new theme and innovative theatrical strategies probing into the hidden...

This book is an in depth study of all the novels of R.P. Jhabvala. It examines many facets of her fiction-- society, real lives, emotional imbalances, sexist approaches, matrimonial crises, exploiation, in many ways leading to unemployment and thus it adds new dimensions to the volume of criticism on the works of Jhabvala.

Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from throughout the world...

Chinua Achebe is the major exponent of the modern African novel. He has Created a new form of English with African colour to suit the narration and the characters involved in action. In order to do so, he has used African words and Concepts that have been rendered into English without losing their...

At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory...

The present book is an attempt to explore Ted Hughes' extraordinary abilities as a shamanic poet. He carries with him healing powers like a shaman and believes that a poet can lead his readers to a world of peace, happiness and bliss through the rhythms of his poetry. Hughes' endeavours, in this respect,...

Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Harris  Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296–97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after...