Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream (ICAS Publications series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089640924 ISBN 13: 9789089640925

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This volume brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, spanning all three mainstream cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, along with India. Ranging from Sanskrit poetry of over a thousand years ago to contemporary Chinese fiction, the contributors combine original fi ndings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader. A unifying concern of the contributors is to give voice to a wide range of literary and scholarly fi gures who were important in their time and remain relevant to our epoch and yet whose significance has been poorly understood.

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About the Author

Philip F. Williams is Language and Culture Curriculum Developer at the Mansfield Center, University of Montana. He is also Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Culture from Arizona State University.

From the Back Cover

Verzameling grensverleggend Aziatisch literatuuronderzoek

Het toegankelijk geschreven 'From Marginal to Mainstream' brengt de literatuur van Azië in kaart. Het is een verzameling van grensverleggend Aziatisch literatuuronderzoek. De onderwerpen gaan van vrouwelijke poëten in het vroegmoderne India die zich door hun unieke gebruik van Sanskriet duidelijk onderscheidden van hun mannelijke collega’s, via Japanse naar Chinese auteurs wier autobiografisch werk een geheel nieuwe trend zette in de 20ste en 21ste eeuwse Chinese literatuur.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9089640924
• ISBN 13: 9789089640925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Williams Philip F.