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  • Writing Gender, Writing Nation

    Women’s Fiction in Post-Independence India

    by Bharti Arora ...
    This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women’s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts.Indian women’s writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Satire

    Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire

    Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction in both the cutting-edge territory of political resistance writing and the ancient tradition of Menippean satire. Postcolonial Satire aims to disrupt the relationship between postcolonial literature and magic realism, by discussing the work of writers such as G. V. Desani, ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics

    History, Theory, and Theoreticians

    The thinkers and philosophers of ancient India contemplated intensively and extensively about all aspects related to life, and art was one of the major domains they touched upon. A profound and intense analysis of the art experience in literature naturally led to the evolution of one of the most sophisticated and long-standing poetic systems in the world.An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics: ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Writing Resistance

    The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature

    by Laura Brueck ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the form within contemporary critical frameworks. Laura R. Brueck's approach goes beyond recognizing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran

    Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Sensitivity and Cultural Multiplexity in Recent Indian English Poetry

    Contemporary poetic imagination is related to the actuality around which is the basis for thematic content in our poets. There is emphasis on the feelings about life, living, and our tradition and ethos. Poetry is being cherished as portrayal of our aspirations, ambitions, conditions of our sensitivity and sensibility and cultural multiplexity. The poets included in this book are only analyzed and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

    "Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • France and Indochina

    Cultural Representations

    Edited by Kathryn Robson, Jennifer Yee ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    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 of 'Indochina' is understudied compared to its relationship with its former colonies in West and North ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • The Tale of Hansuli Turn

    Translated by Ben Conisbee Baer ...
    A terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal tribe" soon to be epically transformed by the effects of World War II and India's independence movement ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Splendid Vision

    Reading a Buddhist Sutra

    by Richard Cohen ...
    Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value, cosmic truth, and existential meaning.The ancient author of the "Splendid Vision Sutra" promises every ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A New Finding on the Unsung English Poets

    A Stylistic Introduction

    We are made to assume, by the available works on the history of Indian writing in English, that all the writers of yesteryears have been identified, analyzed and assessed exhaustively and nothing more remains to be explored. However, there have been several Indian writers who wrote good amounts of literature in English, but still, the literary world is not aware of such writers and their works. ... Read more

    $5.50 USD

  • Text and Tradition in South India

    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    Velcheru Narayana Rao's contribution to understanding Indian cultural history, literary production, and intellectual life—specifically from the vantage of the Andhra region—has few parallels. He is one of the very rare scholars to be able to reflect magisterially on the precolonial and colonial periods. He moves easily between Sanskrit and the vernacular traditions, and between the worlds of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Assured Self, Restive Self

    Encounters with Crisis

    The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times.A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema

    Exploring the evolution of song and dance in the popular Hindi film, this book examines how these quintessential elements have been and continue to be theorized.As song ‘picturizations’, as they are frequently called, have evolved, shifting from little more than impromptu moves around tree trunks to highly choreographed affairs featuring scores of professional dancers and exotic backgrounds, their ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad

    The book is about V. S. Naipaul who was born in Trinidad in 1932. At the age of 18, Naipaul left Trinidad on a scholarship to study literature at Oxford. He never returned to live in Trinidad. His first book was published in 1956, and by the time Trinidad achieved political independence in 1962, he had published four books and was firmly established as a writer in England. By the time Trinidad ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Le Rig-Véda et les origines de la mythologie indo-européenne

    by Paul Regnaud ...
    En prenant la parole dans ce bel édifice où se trouvent réunis tant d’objets qui intéressent la science à laquelle mes conférences seront consacrées, je dois avant tout adresser des remerciements à l’amateur généreux et éclairé dont je suis l’hôte. Je n’ai pas à rappeler les lointains voyages de M. Guimet, ses goûts d’artiste, ses curiosités intellectuelles, toutes les initiatives hardies et ... Read more

    $2.22 USD

  • Untouchable Fictions

    Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

    Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit (“untouchable” caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V.S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Artistic and Realistic Mode in R.K. Narayan’s Fiction

    R.K. Narayan is the first modern Indian writer to make a full-time career out of literature. He is ranked among the greatest fiction writers of the world, Narayan presents a profound moral vision in his novels without being didactic. He is generally realistic and at the same time artistic. The present book "Artistic and Realistic Mode in R.K. Narayan's Fiction" reveals as to how Narayan minutely ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Maternal Fictions

    Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts.Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous examination of the prosody and politics of motherhood in this corpus. In its five thematically focused ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Sociology Through Literature

    A Study of Kaaroor's Stories

    This book presents a comprehensive study of nearly 100 of Kaaroor’s short stories. Kaaroor Neelakanta Pillai is one among the Big Six of the ‘new wave’ in Malayalam literature which began in the mid-1940s. The Big Six and their immediate followers wrote about the common man, peasants, pavement-dwellers, fishermen, rickshaw-pullers, underpaid school teachers — their lives, aspirations and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata

    by Nikhil Govind ...
    The Mahabharata, one of the most popular epics, has had a remarkable impact on literary and cultural thought in India through the centuries. It is also of immense religious and philosophical importance and is considered itihasa, literally 'that which happened', or sacred history. Though the setting of the Mahabharata is distant in time, something of its indefatigable, insistent formulation of the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Ocean of Mirth

    Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times

    The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya. As a political satire, the volume finds significant resonances among contemporary questions of politics and society across the world, and examines the tension inherent in the clash of ideas ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Globalizing Dissent

    Essays on Arundhati Roy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    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 – examines Roy beyond the aesthetic parameters of her fiction, focusing also on her creative activism ... Read more

    $59.99 USD