Asian

A bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity over the past two hundred yearsSrinivas Aravamudan surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, he argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism ... More

This reader assembles some of the most important works from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. A distinguished cast of contributors presents much-needed frameworks for understanding and contextualising the debates on ... More

Sukumar Ray was the first humorist in Bengali literature. His witty poems, anarchic plays and hilarious stories have enchanted many generations of readers. Many phrases invented by him have become a part of the Bengali language. Sukumar Ray introduced humour to Indian Literature and his irrepressibl... More

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In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. Major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists Intervenes... More

Tuttle Publishing is proud to offer newly redesigned editions of some of Japan's greatest writers from medieval to modern times. Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature are a vital and affordable introduction. Begin building your collection now The author's remarkable insight into human weaknesses, h... More

In this major new interdisciplinary study, Michelle Keown examines representations of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Exploring inter-connections between postcolonial studies and disciplines including anthropology, psychoanalysis, history and medic... More

The essays in this collection cover the entire range of Irish drama, from the late nineteenth-century melodramas (anticipating the rise of the Abbey Theatre) to the contemporary Dublin of theater festivals. In addition to studies of individual playwrights, the collection includes an examination of t... More

"This is an extraordinary book. It is the most systematic and critical treatment of what may be termed the 'postwar theoretical hysteria.' In the process, the study introduces for the first time in English a number of very important primary sources and provides sensitive and insightful new readings ... More

Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry--long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture--became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent Ind... More

Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, "The Breaking Jewel" offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed ... More

Guiyou Huang traces the history of Asian American literature from the end of World War II to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Huang covers six genres: anthology, autobiography/memoir, drama, fiction, poetry, and short fiction; reviews major historical developments and social movements; exp... More

Jia Pingwa, a major contemporary Chinese writer, has an enormous readership in the Chinese speaking world including inland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. His novels have caused both fame and controversy. However, despite the use of Pingwa's poetry, novels and prose in schools and universities and his ... More

"Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature" looks at the ways in authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies the contributors illuminate themes and issues relat... More

The several Brahmin hands who wrote the Laws of Manu drew on jurisprudence, philosophy and religion to create an extraordinary, encyclopaedic model of how life should be lived, in public and in private, by Untouchables as well as by priests and kings, by women as well as by men. The Sanskrit text w... More

Manu`s Code of Law, which dates back to about the second century CE, has long been considered the most authoritative work on Hindu law, religion, and social mores. In this volume is contained the first critical edition of the Code, as well as an accurate and elegantly worded translation.... More

Following an authentic, up-to-date Oxford word list based on original Oxford source material, this dictionary provides over 34,000 English words and phrases with short, precise Gujarati definitions. Other features include: separate clear entries for derivations and abbreviations; senses of words ord... More

These plays represent three phases in the career of the dramatist Girish Karnad, all three are classics of the Indian stage. The first play, Tughlaq, is a historical play in the manner of nineteenth-century Parsee theater. The second, Hayavadana was one of the first modern Indian plays to employ tra... More