![]() ![]() The defensible claims that The Tale of Genji is history’s first novel and the first major literary work written by a woman have won it international recognition and accordingly inclusion in many survey courses of world literature. Illustration from Zuhan Genji monogatari, Nihon no koten, v. The woman figure at the bottom is a lady in-waiting, the role played by Murasaki Shikibu herself in Empress Sh¯ushi’s court. ![]() 1180) showing the mature Genji cradling Kaoru, the son borne by Genji’s wife but fathered by Genji’s best friend’s son. Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Artsĭownload PDF Detail from the Genji monogatari emaki (c.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants.Key Issues in Asian Studies Book Series.AAS Takes Action to Build Diversity & Equity in Asian Studies.AAS Community Forum Log In and Participate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How do assumptions about power affect what we select as problems for research who pays for this research and what purposes does the research serve? A critique of research practice might take on the neo liberal globalisation agenda in higher education, institutional reliance on private money and an over eagerness to put knowledge at the service of the highest bidder.Ģ. When it comes to academic research decolonisation takes a number of forms, some mainstream, some more contentious. Decolonisation then offers a powerful metaphor for those wanting to critique positions of power and dominant culture. Decolonisation itself refers to the undoing of colonial rule over subordinate countries but has taken on a wider meaning as the ‘freeing of minds from colonial ideology’ in particular by addressing the ingrained idea that to be colonised was to be inferior. ![]() ![]() No, it's the people who live there that make it special-it's the community that brings life to the town. Once I graduated, I planned to get a full-time job with my double degree in dance and art history, but it didn't exactly work out." (3.152)Īt first Mclean thinks that Lakeview is just like every other town she's ever lived in-after all, even the high school looks the same as other schools she's attended-but she soon finds that what makes the town of Lakeview special isn't the buildings, or the local attractions. "Eventually I left for college, but even then I came back and waited tables in the summers. It was my first real job." She picked up the milk crate, moving it to the opposite wall, then folded the chairs, one by one. As Opal explains her attachment to Luna Blu and Lakeview: People like Dave and Opal grew up there… and never left. Lakeview is a fine, comfortable little suburb where many of the residents have lived for their whole lives. ![]() ![]() Mclean and her dad move to Lakeview, a fictional town based on Chapel Hill that makes an appearance in many of Dessen's novels. ![]() What Happened to Goodbye takes place in a town that may be familiar to discerning readers of Sarah Dessen's other books. ![]() ![]() ![]() One woman approaches her, Annabel, who demands to know why she is alone, sulking different. The child is angry and rebels against the women with whom she feels she can share nothing - they withhold the secret of men from her. They live in an iron-barred cage in a bunker, patrolled around the clock by three guards on changing shifts. There is nothing flashy, extraneous or dramatical - although there are disturbing and emotional events.įrom the beginning our narrator is different, because she is the only child held as a prisoner with 39 women. I always respond well to intellect driven narratives. I particularly liked the beginning which follows the developing mind of our narrator, the child, and later the unnamed woman. For me the straightforward sentences reflect accurately the ability of our narrator, who writes this story at the end of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Anarchy tells one of history's most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire-which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources-fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. ![]() Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London. ![]() The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucas finds out that all three men were linked to the same family and wondered if he might be dealing with a serial killer. Soon after, Lucas is summoned to the small town of Little Mercy, where three more deaths have occurred-each with identical marks around their necks as if a rope has been tied tightly around them. Once Weather learns of the connection, Lucas uses his knowledge of the pattern of death along with his loyal team of associates to investigate further. Her death is believed to be an overdose from drugs and the police aren’t sure of the motives behind it, but Lucas is quickly connected to June because her last name (Strenger) is the same as Lucas’s wife, Weather’s maiden name. The book opens with the death of June Strenger-a young, single mother who is found dead in a cheap apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As usual, Lucas is forced to rely on his smarts and detective skills to unravel the secrets of a small town and discover the killer behind it all. Here, he’s summoned to the wooded hills of Minnesota when three mysterious deaths occur in the vacation town of Little Mercy. For those who aren’t familiar, the series follows the professional and personal adventures of Lucas Davenport-a shrewd and bold Minneapolis detective and profiler. Masked Prey is the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series by John Sandford. ![]() ![]() Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long – I’m ashamed to say this, but this is my first book by this author. (It’s on sale for $1.99 right now, but I’m not sure how long that price will last.) My joint review with Kini. I’m super confident you will love it as much as Kini and I did. ![]() Even if you don’t normally read sci-fi romance please, please give this book a try. I knew from the first scene in the first chapter that this was absolutely my jam. Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik – This is probably my favorite book of 2019 so far. I feel like this year I’ve had a lot more fantasy and UF on my TBR shelf than usual. I read a ton of fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, historical romance, contemporary romance, paranormal romance and steampunk. ![]() I vary rarely read in the same genre two books in a row. ![]() I’m trying to incorporate more books that have been sitting on my TBR shelf into my reading schedule, but I can’t seem to stop requesting review ARCs. My goal is 125 this year, so at the moment I’m ahead of schedule. Angela: Hey y’all! It’s half way into 2019 and Goodreads says I’ve read 78 books. ![]() ![]() A reminder that love is something we never lose. Magically the rains camey, and though never really having left town, the three complete a journey of the soul. 13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. So it was, the three buddies decide to run away. new tale of enchantment from best-selling master storyteller Alice Hoffman. ![]() And, while everybody in town celebrates brilliant, rainless days, for 13 year-old Martha Glimmer the very daily sameness seemed to freeze the grief of her mother's death for both herself and her father. That is, except two brothers, known as Trout and Eel for their darting quickness and the mysterious webbing between their fingers and toes the boys dream of the farthest seas and a hazy magical past. The dry and dusty town of Oak Grove, haunted by a past flood, is a place where everybody dreads water. Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice. ![]() Borrowing novelist and author Alice Hoffman's (1952 -) words, this is a "modern fairy tale about three children who are lost before they every leave home". ![]() ![]() Typically, approaches to Cooper's novel draw on sources such as Rousseau and Columbus, (1) whose contemplations of a "new" American landscape and its inhabitants serve as much of the basis for the Noble Savage convention in literature. ![]() In a popular sense, the novel has come to be viewed as an adventure story of our country's beginnings, an American counterpart to Sir Walter Scott's Waverley escapades set against the backdrop of a pristine yet unpredictable wilderness, the inhabitants of which eventually disappear. ![]() Scholars of James Fenimore Cooper have generally interpreted The Last of the Mohicans and its American Indian characters as emblematic of the Vanishing American convention in American literature, whereby Natives must be subsumed in order for a young America to fulfill its destiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() MOST IMPORTANT: it was written by gay man. Here are some bullet points in a foolish attempt to keep my thoughts organized: It’s not just about romantic love but love in general - for yourself, for those around you, for your life and your surroundings. It’s just so romantic and beautifully written and it’s contemporary but it reminds me of historical fiction with the romanticism and poetry it treats love with. But I REALLY think y’all will love it whether or not M/M is typically your thing. ![]() ![]() It is a gay romance, which I know is a less popular genre on here. ![]() WAIT STOP DON’T GO EVEN IF M/M ISN’T YOUR THING!!!! (If m/m IS your thing, follow the above instructions given to the sports romance lovers.) THE REST OF YOUR TBR CAN WAIT LIKE IT HAS FOR MANY MONTHS) Don’t add it to your TBR, I know you won’t read it then. (If you DO like a sports romance, stop reading this and go read the book. For the record, I don’t typically go for sports romances. WAIT STOP DON’T LEAVE EVEN IF YOU DON’T LIKE SPORTS ROMANCES!!! Let me try to convince you. I just finished this book and also it’s late and my adderall is LONG gone out of my system so excuse my jumbled-ness but Y’ALL…. ![]() |