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  1. War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions:... more

     

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage? Representing the collaboration of ten expert researchers of Japanese popular culture and travel, it develops a theoretical framework for understanding war-related contents tourism and demonstrates the framework in practice via numerous short case studies across a millennium of warfare in Japan including: the tales of heroic deities in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712), the Edo poetry of Matsuo Basho, and the Pacific war through lens of popular media such as the animated film the Grave of the Fireflies. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as more general issues of war and peace in Japan, East Asia and beyond.

     
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    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003239970; 9781000603590; 9781032145693; 9781032145679
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    Subjects: Travel & holiday; Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: contents tourism; dark tourism; heritage tourism; popular culture; Russo-Japanese War; samurai; World War II; war
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  2. Sensitive Reading : The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation (Edition 1)
    Contributor: Bronner, Yigal (Publisher); Hallisey, Charles (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities... more

     

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    What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The translations are accompanied by short essays written to help readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas others model how to expand appreciation in comparative and broader ways. Together, the translations and the accompanying essays form an essential guide for people interested in literature and art from South Asia.

     
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    Contributor: Bronner, Yigal (Publisher); Hallisey, Charles (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Asian history; Anthologies (non-poetry); Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: History; Asia; India & South Asia; Literary Collections; Asian; Indic; Literary Criticism; Asian; Indic
  3. Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java : The Revised Prose Version of C.F. Winter Sr
    Contributor: Remmelink, Willem (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time,... more

     

    The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter achieved his aims in other ways and publications, the present text was mostly forgotten, or was just passed over as another copy of the Meinsma text (Pigeaud, Literature of Java). This was unfortunate, because it deprived linguists of one of the first attempts to create a standard Javanese prose language, and historians of a readable text that presented a Javanese view of Javanese history from the beginning until 1742. To belatedly set the record straight and to honour Winter’s contributions to the development of Javanese, I decided to publish this text in Javanese script and provide an English translation for the general public. Although historians of Java have endeavoured to incorporate Javanese sources in their research, it remains invaluable to view that history directly through the eyes of 17th and 18th century Javanese contemporaries.

     
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    Contributor: Remmelink, Willem (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087283711; 9789087283810
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    Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Asian history; Javanese
    Other subjects: Javanese language, Javanese prose writing, Javanese history, Early modern history, Asian studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (1086 p.)
  4. Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (Edition 1)
    Author: Mack, Edward
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It provides a detailed... more

     

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    This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It provides a detailed history of Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that existed in Brazil prior to World War II. This case study of the reading and writing of one diasporic population challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls “acquired alterity,” in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. Acquired Alterity encourages a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of peoplehood that are often the true objects of literary knowledge production.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Asian history; Literature: history & criticism; Anthologies (non-poetry)
    Other subjects: History; Asia; Japan; Literary Criticism; Asian; Japanese; Literary Collections; Asian; Japanese
  5. Celebrating sorrow
    medieval tributes to "The tale of Sagoromo"
    Author: D'Etcheverry, Charo B.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises... more

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    Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises to the imperial throne. Charo B. D'Etcheverry translates a selection of Sagoromo-themed works, highlighting the diversity of medieval Japanese creative practice and the persistent and varied influence of a beloved court tale. Medieval Japanese readers, fascinated by Sagoromo's sorrows and success, were inspired to retell his tale in stories, songs, poetry, and drama. By recontextualizing the tale's poems and writing new libretti, stories, and commentaries about the tale, these medieval aristocrats, warriors, and commoners expressed their competing concerns and ambitions during a chaotic period in Japanese history.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501764790
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    Series: Cornell East Asia series
    Cornell scholarship online
    Subjects: Japanese literature; Literature; Japan; Japanese; Poetry; Literature: history & criticism; Asian history
    Other subjects: Rokujō Saiin no Senji (-1092): Sagoromo monogatari
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 143 pages), Illustrations (black and white).
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    Also issued in print: 2022

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  6. Writing Tamil Catholicism
    Author: Trento, Margherita
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Brill, [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] ; OAPEN FOUNDATION, The Hague

    In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites... more

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    Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda, Standort Heinrich-von-Bibra-Platz
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    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.

     
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  7. Tales of idolized boys
    male-male love in medieval Japanese Buddhist narratives
    Author: Schmidt-Hori, Sachi
    Published: 2022; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780824888923
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships; Buddhism; Asian history; Literature: history & criticism; Literary companions, book reviews & guides; Buddhist; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Mönch <Motiv>
    Scope: xix, 232 Seiten, 10 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
  8. Cinema of discontent
    representations of Japan's high-speed growth
    Author: Sasaki, Tomoyuki
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  SUNY Press, Albany

    "Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success." more

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    "Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success."

     
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  9. Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan
    Dreams of the Bubble Economy
    Author: Amano
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the... more

     

    This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the second largest economy in the late twentieth century.Drawing its analysis from various media sources, popular literary works, and public reports, the book articulates how the late 1980s calibrated consumer demands, lifestyles, and perceptions of wealth. Through an examination of the qualitative effects of 'Bubble money' on consumers, the book disentangles the anatomy of the festive ambience in the economic phase, closely reading fictional and non-fictional literary works that play the role of reportage, critique, and satire. Through observations of human behaviours in consumption, the book reveals psychosomatic experiences and self-consciousness.Featuring a wide range of sources from Japanese media and literary works which have yet to be translated for an English audience, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of modern Japanese culture and literature who are interested in the socio-economic landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032287270
    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Subjects: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; Japanese; Japanisch; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; Social & cultural history; Society & culture: general; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Scope: 160 Seiten
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    Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism 1. Dreams of Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption 2. You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy 3. The Age of Festivity: Women's Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury 4. An Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen 5. Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy 6. Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy 7. The Bubble Economy as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism
  10. Siting Postcoloniality
    Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere
    Contributor: Cheah, Pheng (HerausgeberIn); Hau, Caroline S. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, North Carolina

    The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that... more

     

    The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China's attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony; the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule; Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism; and Hong Kong's complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory's central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the Sinosphere. Challenging fundamental axioms of postcolonial studies, this volume forcefully suggests that postcolonial theory needs to be rethought. Contributors. Pheng Cheah, Dai Jinhua, Caroline S. Hau, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Wendy Larson, Liao Ping-hui, Lin Pei-yin, Lo Kwai-Cheung, Lui Tai-lok, Pang Laikwan, Lisa Rofel, David Der-wei Wang, Erebus Wong, Robert J. C. Young

     
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    Contributor: Cheah, Pheng (HerausgeberIn); Hau, Caroline S. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781478016687
    Series: Sinotheory
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; Literaturtheorie
    Scope: 344 Seiten
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    Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah 1 Part I. Framing the Postcolonial 1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young 33 2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 53 Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality 3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson 71 4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People's Republic of China's Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan 90 Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires 5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung 109 6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong's Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok 127 7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho 148 Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms 8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin 171 9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui 191 Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality 10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang 213 11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau 232 12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah 250 References 277 Contributors 313 Index 315
  11. The Comintern and the Global South
    Global Designs/Local Encounters
    Contributor: Capuzzo, Paolo (HerausgeberIn); Mahler, Anne Garland (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of... more

     

    The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism. Building on extant institutional histories of the Third International, it moves in new directions by focusing on the points of intersection - often conflictual and short-lived - with anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and nationalist organizing, making the Third International a site of encounter between a global political project and more local and regional contexts. Due to the broad range of geographic and linguistic expertise of the contributors, this book traces routes of exchange that are often elided in existing studies of the Third International. The chapters address how actors from Global South contexts shaped key debates on, for example, the role of Black, Indigenous, and migrant labor, the "Islamic question," and the "peasant question," which challenged Bolshevik epistemological frameworks. All such "questions" involved political subjectivities that the Comintern tried to reductively frame within a global revolution driven by Moscow, resulting in the Comintern's ultimate disintegration. Nevertheless, this juncture between the Comintern's global designs and its local encounters left a significant legacy that would later be reconfigured in mid-century anticolonial movements

     
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    Contributor: Capuzzo, Paolo (HerausgeberIn); Mahler, Anne Garland (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367724764
    Series: Ideas beyond Borders
    Subjects: Amerikanische Geschichte; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Colonialism & imperialism; European history; Europäische Geschichte; General & world history; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte; Geschichte und Archäologie; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / General; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Revolutionary; HISTORY / Social History; HISTORY / World; History of the Americas; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
    Scope: 250 Seiten
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    Part One: Global Designs: The Comintern ImaginaryIntroduction: The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters 1: Within and Against the World Market: The Marxian Laboratory of Internationalism 2: Before Baku: The Second International and the Debate on Colonialism (1900-1920) 3: Communism and the Colour-Line: Reflections on Black BolshevismPart Two: Local Encounters: Confluences and Conflicts4: Via Kabul: Muhajirs turned Early Communists from India (1915-1923)5: Pandurang Khankhoje in Mexico: Communism, Anti-imperialism, and Radical Agrarianism in a Post-revolutionary Setting6: An Atlantic Revolutionary Brotherhood: Radical Networks, Local Realities, and the Challenges to the Comintern's Global Domain in the Caribbean Basin, 1920-1935 7: Pan-Islamism, South Asia, and Communist Internationalism8: The Spanish Civil War Seen from the Far East: The Case of the Chinese Anarcho-communist Writer Ba Jin and the League of Left-wing WritersIndex
  12. The Comintern and the Global South
    Global Designs/Local Encounters
    Contributor: Capuzzo, Paolo (HerausgeberIn); Mahler, Anne Garland (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of... more

     

    The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism. Building on extant institutional histories of the Third International, it moves in new directions by focusing on the points of intersection - often conflictual and short-lived - with anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and nationalist organizing, making the Third International a site of encounter between a global political project and more local and regional contexts. Due to the broad range of geographic and linguistic expertise of the contributors, this book traces routes of exchange that are often elided in existing studies of the Third International. The chapters address how actors from Global South contexts shaped key debates on, for example, the role of Black, Indigenous, and migrant labor, the "Islamic question," and the "peasant question," which challenged Bolshevik epistemological frameworks. All such "questions" involved political subjectivities that the Comintern tried to reductively frame within a global revolution driven by Moscow, resulting in the Comintern's ultimate disintegration. Nevertheless, this juncture between the Comintern's global designs and its local encounters left a significant legacy that would later be reconfigured in mid-century anticolonial movements

     
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    Contributor: Capuzzo, Paolo (HerausgeberIn); Mahler, Anne Garland (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367724856
    Series: Ideas beyond Borders
    Subjects: Amerikanische Geschichte; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Colonialism & imperialism; European history; Europäische Geschichte; General & world history; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte; Geschichte und Archäologie; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / General; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Revolutionary; HISTORY / Social History; HISTORY / World; History of the Americas; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
    Scope: 250 Seiten
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    Part One: Global Designs: The Comintern ImaginaryIntroduction: The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters 1: Within and Against the World Market: The Marxian Laboratory of Internationalism 2: Before Baku: The Second International and the Debate on Colonialism (1900-1920) 3: Communism and the Colour-Line: Reflections on Black BolshevismPart Two: Local Encounters: Confluences and Conflicts4: Via Kabul: Muhajirs turned Early Communists from India (1915-1923)5: Pandurang Khankhoje in Mexico: Communism, Anti-imperialism, and Radical Agrarianism in a Post-revolutionary Setting6: An Atlantic Revolutionary Brotherhood: Radical Networks, Local Realities, and the Challenges to the Comintern's Global Domain in the Caribbean Basin, 1920-1935 7: Pan-Islamism, South Asia, and Communist Internationalism8: The Spanish Civil War Seen from the Far East: The Case of the Chinese Anarcho-communist Writer Ba Jin and the League of Left-wing WritersIndex
  13. Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present
    Author: Brown, William N.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore

    This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou's innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally-values that are today being embraced by... more

     

    This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou's innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally-values that are today being embraced by China's global trade partners.Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo's port of departure and Columbus' goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk Road and the Middle Age's greatest port but also centuries ahead of its time in its tolerance and diversity. The fabled "City of Light" had 7 mosques for its 40,000 Muslims, some of whom served in government, as well as 3 Franciscan cathedrals funded in part by the emperor, Jewish synagogues, and centers for Nestorian Christians, Hindus, Taoists, Manicheans, Jains, etc. As Franciscan Bishop Andrew of Perugia wrote in 1322, "Tis a fact that in this vast empire, there are people of every nation under heaven, and every sect, and all and sundry are allowed to live freely according to their creed."In 2021, UNESCO designated "Quanzhou, Emporium of the World," as a world heritage site, and the city is now the hub of the Belt and Road Initiative, the 21st Century Silk Road, which was inspired by ancient Quanzhou

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789811980381
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / China; LIT024000; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; Sociology; Sociology: work & labour; Soziologie; Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf; Städte, Stadtgemeinden
    Scope: 137 Seiten
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    Quanzhou at a Glance.- The Story of Zaytun.- Exploring Quanzhou Maritime Museum.- Exploring the Ancient Maritime Silk Road in Today's Quanzhou.- Quanzhou: Home of Miraculous Chinese Puppets!.
  14. Nehru
    The Debates That Defined India
    Author: Singh, Tripurdaman; Hussain, Adeel
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers, London

    'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious... more

     

    'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today'Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire A history of Nehru that dives deep into the debates of his era to understand his ideology - and that of his contemporaries and opponents, asking what India would look like had another bold young mind with fiercely held views led during the country's formative years of independence. Sixty years after the death of Jawaharal Nehru, the independence activist and first prime minister of India continues to be deified and vilified in equal measure. And still in contemporary political debate, the ideological spectrum remains defined by the degree of divergence from Nehru's ideas. With the Nehruvian ideals increasingly juxtaposed against the positions of Nehru's erstwhile contemporaries and questions asked about what might have happened on the Indian subcontinent had another hero of that era taken leadership, this book explores his encounters with key contemporaries to excavate and evaluate the views that were in circulation. It examines the founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his cause of Hindu-Muslim unity, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu Mahasabha and his fierce defence of the constitution, the Congress leader Sardar Patel, with whom Nehru often disagreed about the threat of China, and Mohammad Iqbal, the poet and politician whose letters on Muslim solidarity were often issued from a prison cell. The correspondence and interactions that Nehru had with these key personalities captures the essence of how post-independent India was projected as a nation, and the early directions it took towards self-definition

     
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  15. Minor Salvage
    The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings
    Author: Sohn, Stephen Hong
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    The Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean... more

     

    The Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone. Minor Salvage reads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the admittedly partial ways in which those made precarious by war seek to rebuild their lives. The titular phrase "minor salvage," draws on different valences of the word salvage which, while initially associated with naval recovery efforts, can also be used to describe the rescue of waste material. Spurred by the stories told and retold to him by his parents Soon Ho and Yunpyo, Sohn enacts minor salvage by reading overlooked early Korean American life writings penned by Induk Pahk, Taiwon Koh, Joseph Anthony, and Kim Yong-ik alongside a later generation of life writings authored by Sunny Che and K. Connie Kang. In the context of the Korean War, Sohn argues, life writings take on a crucial political orientation precisely because of the fragility attached to refugees, civilians, children, women, and divided family members. To depict the possibility of life is to acknowledge simultaneously the threat of death, violence, and brutality, and in this regard, such life writings are part of a longer genealogy in which marginalized communities find representational power through the creative process

     
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    ISBN: 9780472055203
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / Korea; HISTORY / Military / Korean War; Korean War; LIT025010; Literary studies: general; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; Militärgeschichte: Nachkriegs-Konflikte
    Scope: 308 Seiten
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    AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unfinishing WarChapter 1 Proximate Memory Assemblage: Refugee Shapeshifting and the Many Metamorphoses of My ParentsChapter 2 Extending the Gift of American Refuge: Beyond Familial Separation in the Life Writings of Induk Pahk and Taiwon KohChapter 3 Authorial Revisions: Fantasies of the Archive and the Many Faces of Joseph AnthonyChapter 4 Critical Refutopias: Adaptation and Representational Resurrections in Yong-ik Kim's Fictional Life WritingsChapter 5 Retrospective Transformations: Recounting Refugee Flight in the Memoirs of K. Connie Kang and Sunny CheCoda: On (Un)endingNotesWorks CitedIndex
  16. Minor Salvage
    The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings
    Author: Sohn, Stephen Hong
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

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    ISBN: 9780472075201
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / Korea; HISTORY / Military / Korean War; Korean War; LIT025010; Literary studies: general; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; Militärgeschichte: Nachkriegs-Konflikte
    Scope: 308 Seiten
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    Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-D, Bezug zu asiatischen Amerikanern (5PB-US-D)

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  17. Spatial Literary Studies in China
    Contributor: Fang, Ying (HerausgeberIn); Tally Jr., Robert T. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing AG, [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]

    Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the... more

     

    Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars' insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century

     
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    Contributor: Fang, Ying (HerausgeberIn); Tally Jr., Robert T. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783031039133
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022
    Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Cultural studies; HISTORY / Asia / China; Kulturwissenschaften; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literaturtheorie; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
    Scope: 346 Seiten
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    Part I Spatial Theory and Technology1. Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History2. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization3. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies4. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform5. Space: The Keyword of Art History Study6. The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration7. Spatial Narrative in Fiction: "Spatialization" of Fiction NarrativePart II Studies in Literary Geography8. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography9. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties10. American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes11. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty12. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature13. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese NovelsPart III Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis14. The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín's The Woman Who Had Two Navels15. Lewis's Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities16. Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather's One of Ours17. Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu's "River Fu"18. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter19. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space
  18. Odia Sahityare Jatiyatabadi Chetana
    Author: Baliarsingh, Shakuntala
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Black Eagle Books, [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]

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    ISBN: 9781645603122
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen; Gender studies: women; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Literature: history & criticism
    Scope: 312 Seiten
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  19. Tenko: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan
    Contributor: Hayter, Irena (HerausgeberIn); Sipos, George T. (HerausgeberIn); Williams, Mark (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book approaches the concept of tenko (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.Tenko connotes the expressions of ideological conversion... more

     

    This book approaches the concept of tenko (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.Tenko connotes the expressions of ideological conversion performed by members of the Japanese Communist Party, starting in 1933, whereby they renounced Marxism and expressed support for Japan's imperial expansion on the continent. Although tenko has a significant presence in Japan's postwar intellectual and literary histories, this contributed volume is one of the first in Englishm language scholarship to approach the phenomenon. International perspectives from both established and early career scholars show tenko as inseparable from the global politics of empire, deeply marked by an age of mechanical reproduction, mediatization and the manipulation of language. Chapters draw on a wide range of interdisciplinary methodologies, from political theory and intellectual history to literary studies. In this way, tenko is explored through new conceptual and analytical frameworks, including questions of gender and the role of affect in politics, implications that render the phenomenon distinctly relevant to the contemporary moment. Tenko: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese and East Asian history, literature and politics

     
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    Contributor: Hayter, Irena (HerausgeberIn); Sipos, George T. (HerausgeberIn); Williams, Mark (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367770365
    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Subjects: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Literature: history & criticism; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Ostasiatische und indische Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY / Social; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; Society & culture: general
    Scope: 246 Seiten
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    Part 1: Conceptual Excursions 1. 'Ideological Conversion as Historical Catachresis: Coming to Terms with tenko' 2. 'The Historical Origins of tenko as an Intellectual and Social Issue: Marxism - Thought Control - Media' 3. 'Tenko in Korea: Revealing the Critical Threshold of Colonial Empire' 4. 'Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Problem of tenko' Part 2: Literary Possibilities 5. 'Literature and Affect: Proletarian Literature as Discovery' 6. 'Common Tropes and Themes in Japan's tenko Literature' 7. "Doublethink" in Seisan bungaku Theory' 8. "Truth": The tenko of Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao' 9. 'The Disjointed Narratives and Fractured Subjects of Takami Jun' 10. 'Crossing the Void: Shimaki Kensaku's Search for Meaning in "Leprosy" and "Blindness" 11. 'The Tenko of Anarchist Poets: Agrarian and Cinematic Latencies' 12. 'A Proletarian Writer in the Showcase Window: The Shifting Representation of "the Masses" in Sata Ineko's Kurenai' 13. 'Mythic Reality, Battlefield Survival and Psycho-social Conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru's The End of Battleship Yamato'
  20. Dirty Hearts
    The History of Shindo Renmei
    Author: Morais, Fernando
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham

    Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan's defeat and unconditional... more

     

    Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan's defeat and unconditional surrender. In contrast to the internment camps and compulsory military service that characterized the Japanese American wartime experience, this book traces the rise to power of Shind Renmei, an ultranationalist secret society that formed in response to the anti-Japanese measures enacted under Getulio Vargas' Estado Novo. Based in São Paulo, the group used terrorism, propaganda campaigns, and conspiracy theories to violently enforce its narrative of Japan's victory. These traumatic events nevertheless brought about a permanent transformation in the Japanese Brazilian community from a largely insular colony with close ties to its imperial homeland to its new identity as an ethnic minority in postwar Brazil's fraught racial democracy

     
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    ISBN: 9783030705640
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021
    Series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
    Subjects: Amerikanische Geschichte; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Cultural studies; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; HISTORY / Latin America / General; History of the Americas; Kulturwissenschaften; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur; Media studies; Medienwissenschaft: Journalismus; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Scope: 281 Seiten
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    1. Seven Japanese Want to Decapitate a Corporal from the Public Forces: World War II is About to Begin Again.- 2. Subjects of the Axis Powers Cannot Have Radios, Cars, or Money. They Are Not Even Allowed to Speak.- 3. A Little Old Man Terrorizes The Japanese Colony: It Is None Other Than The Wise Colonel Kikawa.- 4. Mizobe Appears to be Swimming in the Air: The First Makegumi Falls Dead.- 5. The Police Discover the Fumie, The Torture That Only Harms a Prisoner's Soul.- 6. Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The "Day of Reckoning" Has Arrived.- 7. Eiiti Sakane, The Solitary R nin, Prepares a Blood Bath in Tupã.- 8. Prestes, Capanema, and Gilberto Freyre Take the Stand: The "Yellow Mafia" Splits the Constituent Assembly in Two.- 9. A Tokk tai Will Be Tortured and Killed: The End of Shind Renmei.- 10. The Final Balance: 31,000 Imprisoned, 381 Formally Charged, and 80 Expelled from Brazil, but President Kubitschek Pardons Them All.
  21. Reimagining Tibet
    Politics of Literary Representation
    Author: Goswami, Koushik
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book examines how territorial, civilisational and cultural location determines one's gaze and attitude while representing a contested space like Tibet. It analyses representations of Tibet in three novels: James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933),... more

     

    This book examines how territorial, civilisational and cultural location determines one's gaze and attitude while representing a contested space like Tibet. It analyses representations of Tibet in three novels: James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933), Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) and Kaushik Barua's Windhorse (2013). It shows how these novels project different types of gaze - insider, outsider and insider-outsider - and explores them within the context of some contemporary Tibetan activist writers. The book also looks at Tibetan exilic writings and virtual activities of the Tibetan activists whose programmes and rhetoric counter the age-old image of the Tibetans as passive and non-violent people. It shows how activists utilise social networking as an effective platform to counter imperialist occupation of Tibet by China. It includes interviews of eight Anglophone Tibetan writers - Tenzin Tsundue, Thubten Samphel, Tsering Namgyal Khortsa, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jamyang Norbu, Tenzin Dickie, Bhuchung D. Sonam, and an Indian writer who has written on Tibet, Kaushik Barua.Interdisciplinary, accessible and engaging, this book presents one of the first studies on how Tibet has been represented in English fiction. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literature, media and cultural studies, politics, history and China studies

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781032132686
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / China; LIT024000; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literaturtheorie; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren; Popular culture; Populäre Kultur; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
    Scope: 216 Seiten
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    List of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction: Tibet and the Politics of RepresentationChapter 2: Tibet as Myth: Patterns of Gaze in James Hilton's Lost Horizon Chapter 3: Looking at Tibet from India: Tibetan Resistance Movement in Kaushik Barua's WindhorseChapter 4: An Insider's View of Tibet: Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock HolmesChapter 5: Reconfiguring Tibet: Tibetan Activism in DiasporaChapter 6: Conclusion: Emergence of Pan-Tibetan ImaginationAppendices: Interviews1. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Kaushik Barua2. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Jamyang Norbu3. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tenzin Tsundue4. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Bhuchung D. Sonam5. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Thubten Samphel6. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tsering Namgyal Khortsa7. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa8. Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tenzin DickieSelect Bibliography Index
  22. Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands
    Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences
    Author: Engelenhoven, Gerlov van
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do... more

     

    This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is silenced? As such, these conflicts represent a wider tendency in cultural theory and activism to use voice as a metaphor for empowerment and silence as voice's negative counterpart, signifying powerlessness. And yet, there are voices that do not liberate us from, but rather subject us to power. Meanwhile, silence can be powerful: it can protect, disrupt and reconfigure. Throughout this book, it will become clear how voice and silence function not as each other's opposites, but as each other's continuation, and that postcolonial memory is articulated through the interplay of meaningful voices and meaningful silences

     
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    ISBN: 9789463726177
    Series: Heritage and Memory Studies
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia; HISTORY / Europe / Western; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
    Scope: 162 Seiten
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    Table of contents Acknowledgments Introduction Postcolonial memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful voices; meaningful silences Chapter one Two cases of Moluccan identity articulation: Deceptive voices and empowering silences in individual and collective self-representation Chapter two The case of the train hijackings: Appropriated voices and protective silences in media representation Chapter three The case of Jan Pieterszoon Coen's statue: Repressive voices and resistant silences in public space Chapter four The case of De Grauwe Eeuw: Disruptive voices and silences in social activism Conclusion Beyond logocentrism Epilogue "East Indian deafness" Works cited Index
  23. Wisdom within words
    an annotated translation of Dōgen's Chinese-style poetry
    Author: Dōgen
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY, United States of America

    "This book is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Mystery Within Words (Kuchūgen), which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Sōtō... more

     

    "This book is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Mystery Within Words (Kuchūgen), which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen sect in early medieval Japan. These poems are very important for highlighting several key aspects of Dōgen's manner of thinking and process of writing. Dōgen composed Sinitic poetry throughout all stages of his career at both Kōshōji temple in Kyoto and Eiheiji temple in the remote mountains. for various purposes. These aims included reflections on meditation during periods of reclusion, commenting on cryptic kōan cases, eulogizing deceased patriarchs, celebrating festivals and seasonal occasions, welcoming new administrative appointees at the temple, remarking on the life of the Buddha and other aspects of attaining enlightenment, and offering capping phrases that help highlight prose teachings or instructions. Although Dōgen's poetry has often been overlooked by the sectarian tradition, even though this collection was edited by the most eminent Edo period scholar-monk, Menzan, this style should of writing now be regarded in relation to the valuable roles that poetry played in the development of East Asian Buddhist contemplative life"-- Wisdom within Words is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Kuchugen, which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dogen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen sect in early medieval Japan, and compiled in the eighteenth century by Menzan Zuiho. These poems are essential in highlighting several key aspects of Dogen's manner of thinking and process of writingcreatively while transmitting the Chan/Zen tradition from China to Japan in the first half of the thirteenth century. Dogen learned the Chinese style of writing poetry-featuring four rhyming lines with seven characters each-when he travelled to the mainland in the 1220s. It was there that he first composed 50 verses, the onlytexts available from this career stage. He continued to write Sinitic poetry throughout his career at both Koshoji temple in Kyoto and Eiheiji temple in the remote mountains. Dogen's poems had various aims, including reflecting on meditation during periods of reclusion, commenting on cryptic koan cases, eulogizing deceased patriarchs, celebrating festivals and seasonal occasions, welcoming new administrative appointees at the temple, remarking on the life of the Buddha and other aspects of attaining enlightenment, and highlighting various teachings or instructions. Although Dogen's poetry has often been overlooked by the sectarian tradition, these writingshave played valuable roles in the development of East Asian Buddhist contemplative life

     
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    Contributor: Heine, Steven (ÜbersetzerIn, KommentarverfasserIn); Dōgen
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780197553527
    Subjects: Poetry; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; HISTORY / Asia / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General; RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY / Zen); RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts; Religion & beliefs; Religion und Glaube; Zen Buddhism; Zen-Buddhismus
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Interessenniveau: 01, General/trade: For a non-specialist adult audience. (01)
  24. The syntax of colophons
    a comparative study across Pothi manuscripts
    Contributor: Balbir, Nalini (HerausgeberIn); Ciotti, Giovanni (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

    This volume is the first to attempt a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary analysis of the manuscript cultures implementing the pothi manuscript form (a loosely bound stack of oblong folios). It is the indigenous form by which manuscripts have been... more

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    This volume is the first to attempt a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary analysis of the manuscript cultures implementing the pothi manuscript form (a loosely bound stack of oblong folios). It is the indigenous form by which manuscripts have been crafted in South Asia and the cultural areas most influenced by it, that is to say Central and South East Asia. The volume focuses particularly on the colophons featured in such manuscripts presenting a series of essays enabling the reader to engage in a historical and comparative investigation of the links connecting the several manuscript cultures examined here. Colophons as paratexts are situated at the intersection between texts and the artefacts that contain them and offer a unique vantage point to attain global appreciation of their manuscript cultures and literary traditions. Colophons are also the product of scribal activities that have moved across regions and epochs alongside the pothi form, providing a common thread binding together the many millions of pothis still today found in libraries in Asia and the world over. These contributions provide a systematic approach to the internal structure of colophons, i.e. their 'syntax', and facilitate a vital, comparative approach

     
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  25. Writings about Kashmir
    illuminating the Labyrinthine Region
    Contributor: Khan, Nyla Ali (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir.... more

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    Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. These chapters are interdisciplinary interventions that could potentially bridge ethnic, religiocultural, and political divides in the region. The book is divided into three sections: the first section explores history and memory, offering a critical dialogue between these phenomena and fiction. The chapters in section two offer a critical dialogue between history, politics, and gender, analyzing historical and political discourses to underscore the agential capacities of Kashmiri women, which are, traditionally, subsumed within masculinist discourse. The sole chapter in section three foregrounds the complex relationship between history, trauma, and poetry.Taken together, this book is a nuanced attempt at giving readers the opportunity to engage with multiple subjectivities, historical understandings, and political opinions. It will be of interest to general readers, scholars, and advanced students of Literature, Politics, History, Human Geography and Sociology.This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review

     
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    Contributor: Khan, Nyla Ali (HerausgeberIn)
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    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032418650
    Subjects: Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Cultural studies; Gender Studies: Gruppen; Gender studies, gender groups; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; Kulturwissenschaften; LIT025030; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur; Politics & government; Politik und Staat; Regional studies; Regionalstudien / Internationale Studien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
    Scope: x, 141 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Interessenniveau: 05, College/higher education: For universities and colleges of further and higher education. (05)

    1. Introduction Section 1: History, Memory, and Fiction: A Critical Dialogue 2. Mapping the Claims of History and Memory in Theorizing of the Kashmir Question 3. Excrement and Waste: Examining the Ramifications of the Municipal Infrastructures and the Problem of Global Eco-Cosmopolitism in Malik Sajad's Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir Section 2: History, Gender, and Politics: A Critical Dialogue 4. "Dancing Naked": Gender, Trauma and Politics in the Mystical Poetry of Lal Ded 5. Women, Morality and Law: Prostitution in Kashmir 6. Women Negotiating Public Sphere in Conflict-Ridden Kashmir: A Case of Sacred-Sites 7. Freda Bedi Looking "From a Woman's Window" on Kashmir Section 3: History, Trauma, and Poetry: A Complex Relationship 8. Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry