Asian Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Asian American Literature

   Edited by David Leiwei Li

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition SynapseAmerican writers whose provenance lies in Asia have been producing and publishing work of interest and distinction for well over a century. However, in recent decades there has been an exponential growth in their output, and much Asian-American...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Writing Okinawa

   Narrative acts of identity and resistance

   By Davinder L. Bhowmik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Interpreting Devotion

   The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India

   By Karen Pechilis

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Perversion and Modern Japan

   Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture

   Edited by Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing

   International Encounters

   By Helena Grice

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Chinese Classic Novels (Routledge Revivals)

   An Annotated Bibliography of Chiefly English-Language Studies

   By Margaret Berry

   First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially,...

   Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. Historical Materialism

   A System of Sociology

   By Nikolai Bukharin

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. Offering a Marxist interpretation of...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

   Cannibalizations of the Canon

   Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. Girl Reading Girl in Japan

    Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social...

    Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge