A Life Adrift

Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

By Azembo Soeda

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-7103-1337-9 (Routledge)

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Writing Okinawa

Narrative acts of identity and resistance

By Davinder L. Bhowmik

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...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77556-4 (Routledge)

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China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century

Edited by Jie Lu

China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42078-5 (Routledge)

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English Writing and India, 1600–1920

Colonizing Aesthetics

By Pramod K. Nayar

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.

Arguing that...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40919-3 (Routledge)

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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English

By Neelam Srivastava

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40295-8 (Routledge)

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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

A Routledge Guide

By Alex Tickell

On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35843-9 (Routledge)

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

By Vijay Mishra

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42417-2 (Routledge)

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Writing Sri Lanka

Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place

By Minoli Salgado

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36418-8 (Routledge)

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Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

A Critical Approach

Edited by Rachael Hutchinson, Mark Williams

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36185-9 (Routledge)

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Narrating China

Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World

By Yiyan Wang

Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa's cultural significance and the...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32675-9 (Routledge)

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