Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - General

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the moments of their making and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises it in the wake of contemporary themes and debates. The volume:

• Studies major texts by foremost scholars Edward W. Said, Chinua Achebe, Albert Memmi, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Carter, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Ashis Nandy, Robert J. C. Young, Ngugi wa Thiongo, and Sara Suleri
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Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, and shows in considerable detail his techniques in translating the Cathay poems.

Originally published in 1969.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished...

The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. "Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s" contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term Asian Canadian as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is...

"It is rare indeed to find so many important themes in U.S.-China relations addressed with both humor and analytical verve. No American businessman can afford to sit down at the negotiating table without having perused this book It will delight professionals and general readers alike."--Vera Schwarcz, Wesleyan University

"Den Leventhal hits the mark with his personable memoir that presents B-School quality case studies for market entry development in the international arena. His easy-going, and often times humorous, narrative belies the hard-hitting realities of opening new business...

The Song of Awakening (chin. Cheng-tao ke, jap. Shodoka), is a seminal text within early Chinese Chan (jap. Zen). Written in the seventh century by the Chinese master Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh (Jap. Yoka Genkaku, known familiarly as Yoka Daishi), this superb poem resonates with Yoka Daishi's great awakening to the truth of reality. As such, it has had a deep influence on the understanding and practice of a long line of Chinese and Japanese Zen masters and practitioners.

Kodo Sawaki uses the poetic expression of Shodoka as a springboard for a wide-ranging commentary that not only...