Cultural Histories of Central Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032364650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 270 str.

Opis

The essays in this volume examine the cultural exchanges and encounters that have occurred in Central Asia through a vast timeline that extends from the premedieval to the medieval and modern periods.

O autorze

Rashmi Doraiswamy is Professor at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She was the recipient of the National Award for the Best Film Critic (1994). In December 2007, she was an International Observer for the Presidential Elections in Uzbekistan. She is the author of The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov in the '90s (Aakar, 2005) and Guru Dutt: Through Light and Shade (Wisdom Tree, 2008). She is co-editor of the book Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia (Macmillan, 2002). Her entry on 'Film and Literature (India)' has appeared in the Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 2005).