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Andha Yug
The Age of Darkness
Häftad, 2010
251 kr
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One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in …
Eyes of the Heart
Selected Plays
Av Catherine Filloux, Frank Stewart
Häftad, 2017
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A collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart; Kidnap Road; Lemkin’s House; Mary and Myra; Selma ’65; and Silence of God. National and international settings. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genocide; crimes against …
Mountain/Home
New Translations from Japan
Häftad, 2018
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Mountain/Home presents new translations of Japanese literature from the country’s medieval period to the present. The narrative arc of the selections follows the evolution of Japan’s national self-image. Because Mount Fuji, more than any other national symbol, has represented the soul of Japan, …
Displaced Lives
Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and Plays from Four Continents
Häftad, 2020
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Acting My Age
Häftad, 2021
290 kr
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Elegant, exuberant, and idiosyncratic, Acting My Age is a memoir and meditation by one of America’s most playful and inventive writers. In the words of Mary Mackey (The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams), "in Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation …
Zither
A Novella and New Short Stories from China
Av Frank Stewart, Frank Stewart
Häftad, 2021
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Featured in this volume is The Woman Zou, the third in a series of novellas by the distinguished woman writer Zhang Yihe. Born in 1942 in Chongqing, Sichuan, Zhang Yihe was the daughter of Zhang Bojun, a high official in the Chinese Communist Party who was purged in 1957 and labeled a public enemy. …
In the Silence
International Fiction, Poetry, Essays, and Performance
Häftad, 2023
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Here are the voices and visions from a world having need of an angel—most of all an angel of reality to help us see the Earth again, its people, and objects, to hear its tragic drone, and to recognize what it is to be human. The writing ranges from Burma/Myanmar to South Asia, China, Central …
New CHamoru Literature
Häftad, 2023
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New CHamoru Literature highlights an intergenerational selection of eighteen emerging, mid-career, and established CHamoru authors, including an extended feature on master storyteller Peter R. Onedera. As Onedera explains in his essay, “The Dilemma of an Official Word,” Chamorro, Chamoru, CHamoru …
Karahee from the Cane Fields
Writing from the Coolie Diaspora
Av S. Shankar
Häftad, 2024
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Karahee from the Cane Fields: Writing from the Coolie Diaspora unifies the literature and culture of the global South Asian Labor Diaspora and how writers live within this identity. From the history of indenture in the 1830s to the 1920s, this racialized bondage replaced the Transatlantic slave …
Always Again
New Work from the Philippines and Philippine Diasporas
Av Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, S. Shankar
Häftad, 2025
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In Always Again: New Work from the Philippines and Philippine Diasporas, guest edited by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, Mānoa brings together authors and visual artists in and of the Philippines and its many diasporas. The contemporary voices of the Philippines featured here pay special attention to …
Architectures of FuturoPasados
Av Anthony Cody
Häftad, 2025
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In Architectures of FuturoPasados, histories jostle futures in literary works of great power. The extraordinary works collected by poet Anthony Cody offer forceful perceptions of Latinx identity from across the Americas and the Caribbean. They attest to the vigor of literary imagination beyond and …
Touchable/Untouchable
Dalit Literature from India in Translation
Av S. Shankar, K. Satyanarayana
Häftad, 2026
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Touchable/Untouchable showcases extraordinary Dalit writing from India in translation. Dalit is the preferred term for the caste-oppressed communities in India formerly known as "untouchables." Though untouchability has been outlawed in the Constitution of independent India since the middle of the …
Lucky Come Hawaii
A Novel
Av Jon Shirota
Häftad, 2009
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In the opening chapter of this classic novel set in Hawai'i, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor has just reached rural Maui. Miscommunication, confusion, and rumors of war aggravate the already tense relations among the diverse immigrant communities, Native Hawaiians, and the American military. As …
Wild Hearts
Literature, Ecology, and Inclusion
Häftad, 2011
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In extraordinary prose and poetry by international writers, Wild Hearts presents the diversity in the meaning of “wildness.” Stories from the edges of dreams reimagine the underside of the wildness in the human heart; fresh ecological perspectives explore humanity’s relationships to nature and to …
Almost Heaven
On the Human and Divine
Häftad, 2012
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Each of the stories, poems, and essays in Almost Heaven is about the appearance of a divine moment or presence—which may take many forms and names. One such presence is depicted here in the play Damien, by Aldyth Morris, based on the Belgian priest who cared for victims of leprosy on the island of …
Sky Lantern
Poetry from China, Formosa and Beyond
Häftad, 2012
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Sky Lanterns contains works by eighteen Chinese poets living in the PRC, Formosa, and the U.S., plus prose by Bei Dao, Wei An, Hai Zi, Woeser, and Karen An-hwei Lee.In a time of great ferment in Chinese poetry, this collection brings together works by classical writer Li Shangyin, plus influential …
On Freedom
Spirit, Art, and the State
Av Frank Stewart, Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Häftad, 2013
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The various meanings of freedom are difficult to clarify in the discursive language of theory and philosophy. But authors of fiction, poetry, and other narrative forms—using metaphor, parable, and figurative speech—are often at home with what is difficult and too subtle for reason alone. Residing …
Cascadia
The Life and Breath of the World
Av Frank Stewart, Trevor Carolan
Häftad, 2013
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Stretching in a great arc from Southeast Alaska to Cape Mendocino, the region known as Cascadia is home to a breathtaking cultural and biological diversity. In this collection, exceptional writers, artists, and activists describe the complexity and richness of the region: from the ancient songs of …
Bright As an Autumn Moon
Fifty Poems from the Sanskrit
Av Frank Stewart, Andrew Schelling
Häftad, 2014
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Bright as an Autumn Moon presents Sanskrit verses composed from the fourth to the twelfth centuries. Translated into contemporary English by American poet Andrew Schelling, they illuminate the ardent worship by lovers of their beloved—both human and divine. Each translation is accompanied by the …
Islands of Imagination I
Modern Indonesian Drama
Av Frank Stewart, John H. McGlynn m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
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In anticipation of the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair in October—where Indonesian literature will be spotlighted—MANOA journal presents Islands of Imagination, Volume One: Modern Indonesian Plays as its winter 2014 issue. Co-edited by Frank Stewart, John H. McGlynn, and Cobina Gillitt, the volume …
Red Peonies
Two Novellas of China
Häftad, 2017
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Red Peonies: Two Novellas of China is the first translation in English of two of the books written by Zhang Yihe about women she met and befriended in prison. The subjects of her stories have been described as “beautiful women who wielded magic power over men. They were like jealous evil spirits, …
Words from the Fire
Poems by Jidi Majia
Av Jidi Majia
Häftad, 2018
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Jidi Majia is one of China's leading indigenous minority poets. In Words from the Fire he explores his Yi heritage in poems that incorporate Yi origin stories, myths, his endangered fire culture, environmental degradation, and the importance of poetic expression in a time of global changes. His …
Becoming Brazil
New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir
Häftad, 2019
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When Dom Pedro I declared Brazilian independence in September 1822, he could not have known that the newly liberated country would one day become a nation of 200 million citizens. Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir presents writing by and about the vibrant people of this fascinatingly …
Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges
New Eco-poetry from China and the U.S.
Häftad, 2019
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Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.—the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now …
Tyranny Lessons
International Prose, Poetry, Essays, and Performance
Häftad, 2020
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The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual …
Out of the Shadows of Angkor
Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance Through the Ages
Av Frank Stewart, Frank Stewart m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing …
Here Was Once the Sea
An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting
Häftad, 2024
314 kr
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Here Was Once the Sea features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction guest edited by Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, and Ann Ang. While many of these works are comprised mostly of anglophone texts, which reflects the aspirations of regional writers to speak across borders and to the globe at …
