Asian Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and Images of the Hindu Tradition

   The Song of the Lord

   By Catherine A. Robinson

   The Bhagavad-Gita is probably the most popular - and certainly the most frequently quoted and widely studied - work of the Hindu scriptures. This book investigates the relationship between the various interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition. Taking into account a range of...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

   Idea, Nation, State

   By Cara Cilano

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy

   The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with the Commentary of Yogaraja

   By Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Kamalesha Datta Tripathi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions

   The Parama¯rthasa¯ra, or ‘Essence of Ultimate Reality’, is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth–eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the doctrine of which he is a notable exponent, namely nondualistic S´aivism, which he designates in his works...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Clouds above the Hill

   A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1

   By Shiba Ryōtarō

   Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum

   Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed....

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Clouds above the Hill

   A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2

   By Shiba Ryōtarō

   Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum

   Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed....

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Asian American Literature

   Edited by David Leiwei Li

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition SynapseAmerican writers whose provenance lies in Asia have been producing and publishing work of interest and distinction for well over a century. However, in recent decades there has been an exponential growth in their output, and much Asian-American...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World

   Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society

   By Michael Collins

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography....

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing

   International Encounters

   By Helena Grice

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Translation in Modern Japan

    Edited by Indra Levy

    The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...

    Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge