M E Sharpe imprint: 36 books

This is the first English translation of the 1976 novel by Japan's most daring and innovative novelist. Kenzaburo Oe dispenses with the unity of voice often sought in the conventional realistic novel by forcing the reader to come to grips with one of the basic questions in modern literature: What is the novel?

Written in and engaging and entertaining style, this popular "how-to" guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of "tools" to help them research and understand the past. This edition includes new chapters on the use of geographic information systems and...

The first collection of short stories by award-winning scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer, Taeko Tomioka. In an objective style reminiscent of Japanese puppet theater, Taeko deconstructs the discourse of the nuclear family and heterosexuality in gendered Japanese culture. Her stories focus on ordinary...

A rare feminist perspective on a people and culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born in Beirut in 1918.

This is the only encyclopedia of the social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English,...

This compelling volume introduces the current generation of moderate reformist thinkers and activists within Islam, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons why reformist movements have been overshadowed by fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements in the Islamic world today.

This enticing anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of twentieth century Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It includes 245 poems by forty poets, and spans the early 1920s and Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century.

This is the life history of Nike Davies, one of the few African women known nationally and internationally in contemporary art circles. Nike's mother died when she was six and she learned to survive by selling what she could. When her father wanted to arrange her marriage she ran away with a travelling...