Routledge Research on Asian Literature
Redefining Postcolonial Theory through Dalit and Adivasi Literature: Centring Marginalized Voices
1st Edition
By Khem Guragain
July 31, 2026
This book critically assesses the limitations of postcolonial theory and positions Dalit and Adivasi literary texts within a caste framework in order to analyze how caste has been the central force in the marginalization of these voices within the South Asian literary and cultural paradigm. Drawing...
Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry and Poetics: Contemporary Poetry Handbook, 2000–2021
1st Edition
By Leith Morton
June 26, 2026
This book analyses avant-garde contemporary Japanese poetry published in the monthly poetry journal Gendai shi techō (Contemporary Poetry Handbook). Featuring analyses and English translations of original poetry and poetics by leading younger Japanese poets, as well as older, veteran poets whose ...
Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature
1st Edition
By Guozhong Duan, Ming Dong Gu
September 11, 2025
Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, play in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions. Examining ...
The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Chia-rong Wu, Min-xu Zhan, Alison Groppe, Yenna Wu
September 09, 2025
This book delves into the evolving Southern discourse in Sinophone literature and explores its significance in the global context. Examining the Southern discourse not just within mainland China but also in the geographically and culturally southern regions, including Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, ...
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation
1st Edition
By Asif Iqbal
August 14, 2025
This book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a variety of perspectives. The author studies the impact of Muslim nationalism on the subaltern life-worlds of East Bengal during the Partition, religious ...
Bao Ninh's Contribution to Vietnamese and World Literature: "The Sorrow of War" and his Short Stories
1st Edition
By Cao Kim Lan, Ooi Keat Gin
September 09, 2024
Bao Ninh's Contribution to Vietnamese and World Literature analyzes and presents the works of Bao Ninh, the most well-known writer in modern Vietnamese literature. His works are renowned both in Vietnam and worldwide and his novel The Sorrow of War, which has been translated into more than 15 ...
Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature: From Natsume Sôseki to Ishimure Michiko
1st Edition
By Reiko Abe Auestad
July 29, 2024
This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analysing a selection of Japanese novels and a film. They are by four well-known male authors and a director (Natsume Sôseki, Shiga Naoya, Ôe Kenzaburô, Ibuse Masuji and Imamura ...