Asian Literature Books

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1. Empire, Nationalism and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Rabindranath Tagore’s Writings on History, Politics and Society

   By Michael Collins

   This book presents a new interpretation Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings and his encounters with Western cultural and intellectual figures. It places the work of India's greatest nobel prize winner and cultural nationalist in the context of other colonial and postcolonial thinkers...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59395-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within

   Edited by Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes

   The groundbreaking concept of "Orientalism" refers to a discursive power structure devised "for dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient". Orientalism was Europe’s strategy of acknowledging the East as its alluring and exotic, yet dangerous and mysterious "Other."...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59902-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia

   Edited by Minami Ryuta

   The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in serious research on ‘Shakespeare in Asia’, yet most readers of the many new monographs and journal articles on the subject have hitherto not enjoyed access to the plays discussed because they have not been readily available in English. Indeed, an...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-57597-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Tale of Genji

   Edited by Richard H. Okada

   The monumental Japanese fictional narrative known as The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) appeared during the first decade or so of the eleventh century, CE. This vast narrative—which spans three-quarters of a century, and is made up of fifty-four chapters and 795 poems—has been attributed to a...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-47900-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59426-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation

   Edited by Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont

   When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-57951-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy: The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta and its Commentary by Yogaraja

   By Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Kamalesha Datta Tripathi

   The Paramarthasæra, or the Essence of [the Teachings on] Supreme Reality by Abhinavagupta (Xth to XIth AD) is a compendium of the monistic doctrine of Trika Saivism. This book offers the first commented English translation of both the text and its commentary by Yogaraja (XIIth AD), along with a...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-34669-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad

   By Shawkat M. Toorawa

   Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59589-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction

   By Cara Cilano

   In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-77958-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Translation in Modern Japan

    Edited by Indra Levy

    The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...

    August 2010 | 978-0-415-57391-7 | Hardback (Routledge)