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"This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of 'Japan', they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. Authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan Several chapters examine the work of exemplar border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner of war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• The one inch barrier
• Language stylistics
• Address matters
• Negotiations: a tug of war between power and solidarity
• Social media stylistics
• Bodily speaking
• Privately speaking
• Formally speaking
• Interculturally speaking
• Women's words.

"The Language of Hallyu will re-examine the language of the Korean Wave by looking at popular K-content. In doing so, it will expose the meanings that get lost in translation, hidden under subtitles. Over the past decade, hallyu (the Korean wave) has exploded in popularity around the globe. K-films, K-drama, and K-pop were once small subcultures, known mostly by Korea's East and Southeast Asian neighbours and Korean diaspora. Now, K-content has entered the international mainstream. Consequently, interest in Korean language has grown, while interest in language learning in general has decreased. Many textbooks emphasise that Korean is a 'polite' language, but this book will highlight that this is not the case. The Language of Hallyu examines popular K-content, including Parasite (2019), Minari (2020), Squid Game (2021), and Pachinko (2022). The author introduces language stylistics to explain how Koreans style their language to suit every occasion. She argues that they do this via a process of visual scanning and social tuning, whereby visual clues are assessed in tangent with an individual's socio-cultural awareness. The author concludes by highlighting the danger of the jondaemal/banmal (polite/casual speech) divide, demonstrating that Korean language is so much more than polite. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in Korean language and culture, particularly those interested in linguistics and pragmatics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Kukkyŏng / Han So-ŭn
• P'enggwin sŏm / Yi Sang-hŭi
• P'ibi / Yi Hye-jŏng
• Sumbidŭlta / Ko Ŭn'-gyŏng
• Hwil ŏllaimŏnt'ŭ / Sin Po-ra
• K'oppulso / Yim Chŏng-in
• Mujigae / Paek Chong-ik
• Maŭm ŭi kŏri / Yim Sun-ok
• P'ŭllasŭt'ik lŏbŭ / Yi Kang
• Nok / Kong Hyŏn-jin
• Sosŭ sidae / Chŏng Kyŏng-yong
• P'adonŭn ŏndŏk ŭl ssŭrŏnaerinda / Yim Chae-il
• Pin sesang ŭl nŏmŏ / Na Kyu-ri
• Nat e chŏmnŭn pyŏl / Yang Su-bin
• Chuje nŏmgi / Yi Ye-rin
• Puk ŭl tudŭrinŭn ohu / Kim Ha-yŏn
• Ch'ejo hapsida / Kim Sa-sa
• Subak / Ha Ka-ram
• NIRVANA / Asin
• Posŭ rŭl asimnikka / Kim Man-sŏng
• T'aekpae / Pak Si-an
• Mal ŏpnŭn mal / Cho Che-in
• Owŏl ŭi pakchegwan / Pae Ŭn-jŏng
• Chwi / Chŏn Chi-yŏng
• Nan'gan e pudich'in pi ka chip an ŭro tŭrich'yŏtchiman / Chŏn Chi-yŏng
• Kijŏk ŭi namja / Kim Tong-sŭng

• 국경 / 한 소은
• 펭귄 섬 / 이 상희
• 피비 / 이 혜정
• 숨비들다 / 고 은경
• 휠 얼라이먼트 / 신 보라
• 코뿔소 / 임 정인
• 무지개 / 백 종익
• 마음 의 거리 / 임 순옥
• 플라스틱 러브 / 이 강
• 녹 / 공현진
• 소스 시대 / 정 경용
• 파도 는 언덕 을 쓸어내린다 / 임 재일
• 빈 세상 을 넘어 / 나 규리
• 낮 에 접는 별 / 양 수빈
• 주제 넘기 / 이 예린
• 북 을 두드리는 오후 / 김 하연
• 체조 합시다 / 김 사사
• 수박 / 하 가람
• NIRVANA / 아신
• 보스 를 아십니까 / 김 만성
• 택배 / 박 시안
• 말 없는 말 / 조 제인
• 오월 의 박제관 / 배 은정
• 쥐 / 전 지영
• 난간 에 부딪힌 비 가 집안 으로 들이쳤지만 / 전 지영
• 기적 의 남자 / 김 동승.

• Intro
• About the Book
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Works Cited and References
• Part I: African Origins
• Chapter 2: Battle by All Means: Udje as Oral Poetry and Performance
• Works Cited and References
• Chapter 3: Halo: The Ewe Battle Tradition of Music, Songs, and Performance
• Introduction
• Hypotheses
• Adja-Ewe Concept of Music and Dance
• Halo: Songs and Dance Performance Among the Adja-Ewes
• Halo: Dramatization of Music Text Through Song and Dance Performance Among the Adja-Ewes
• Target of Halo

• Causes
• Types of Insult
• Methods of Embellishment
• Social Roles
• Religion
• Editing and Performing Procedure
• Features of Halo and Social Problematic
• Halo: Positive and Negative Aspects
• Lobalo and Hama: Heritage of Halo in Modern Adja-Ewe Society
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 4: Poetry and Ping-Pong: Auto/Biographical Verbal Duels in Yoruba Polygamous Households
• Works Cited
• Chapter 5: Shairi and Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature
• Works Cited

• Chapter 6: Moral Authority of Shona Women's Battlesongs: Revising Customary Law in the Context of Performance Within African Indigenous Knowledge System
• Introduction: The Creativity of Battlesongs of Abuse and Rebuke
• Research Questions
• Statement of the Problem
• Methodologies of the Study
• Theorizing the Moral Authority of Women-Centred Songs
• Institutionalized Forms of Rebuke and Insult
• From the Oral Tradition to the Modern Colonial Culture
• Shona Women's Songs that Deride Control of Female Sexualities in Colonial Rhodesia

• Songs that Recentre Images of Powerful Shona Women During Zimbabwe's Armed Liberation Struggle
• Political Satire, and Women's Songs that Rebuke Personality Cult in Post-Independence Zimbabwe
• Conclusion
• References
• Part II: Diaspora Manifestations
• Chapter 7: Battles, Raps, Cappin', The Dozens: African-American Oral Traditions of Insult
• Introduction
• History
• The Dozens as Social Regulation
• The Dozens as a Methodology for Survival
• Poverty and Material Conditions of the Impoverished
• Anti-Blackness
• Misogyny
• The Dozens: Shifting Regionally and Adapting to the Times

• Regional Analogues for Playing "The Dozens"
• Hip-Hop as the Adaptive "Dozens"
• Inequality, Dynamics of Power, and Oppressive Institutions
• Poverty and Effects of Marginalization
• The Dozens: Back to Its Roots and Out to the Global Masses
• Works Cited
• Chapter 8: Black Greek Step Shows
• Introduction
• The Divine Nine: Fraternities
• The Divine Nine: Sororities
• Black Greek Step Shows: Shimmying, Cutting, and Cracking
• Strolls/Party Walks, Chants, Group Identity
• Stepping as a Global Movement
• Works Cited

• Introduction: African literatures and the problem of 'the world' / Alex Fyfe and Madhu Khrishnan
• 'African borders are unnatural': Nairobi and the rise of a world literature / Bhakti Shringarpure
• Can Nairobi 'world' without the 'great Kenyan novel'? / Billy Kahora
• The problem with French and the world: Imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction / Sarah Arens
• The first Ethiopian novel in Amharic (1908) and the world: Critical and theoretical legacies / Sara Marzagora
• The Kaiser, Angoche and the world at large: Swahili poetry from Mozambique as world (war) literature / Clarissa Vierke and Chapane Mutiua
• Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu novels as world literature / Ashleigh Harris
• African multilingualism as an asset in world literature: A case against cultural conformity and uniformity / Munyao Kilolo
• New cartographies for world literary space: Locating pan-African publishing and prizing / Zamda R. Geuza and Kate Wallis
• Aké Festival and the African world stage / Lola Shoneyin
• Contemporary African literature and celebrity capital / Doseline Kiguru
• Reversing the global media lens: Colonial spectacularization in the writing of Binyavanga Wainaina / Penelope Cartwright
• The facts at the heart of the matter: Character and objectivity in the making of the Fante intelligentsia / Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
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• Part I Beyond Postmodernism
• 1. Postmodernity and Globalization
• 2. Globalization as Glocalization in China
• 3. Theories and Cultural Trends after Postmodernism Part II Postcolonialism Reconsidered
• 4. Diasporic Writing and the Reconstruction of Chinese National and Cultural Identity or Identities
• 5. Edward Said: Orientalism and the Critique of Cultural Hegemonism
• 6. Gayatri Spivak: Postcolonial Intellectual and Third World Criticism
• 7. Homi Bhabha: Narration, Cultural Location and Identity
• 8. Chinese Cinema Challenged by Postcoloniality and Globalization Part III Feminist Theory and Literature
• 9. New Orientations of Feminist Theory
• 10. Gender Studies in the Post-theoretical Era
• 11. The Feminist Sense in Contemporary Chinese Female Literature Part IV Cultural Studies
• 12. Cultural Studies: Mainstream Intellectual Trends in the West
• 13. Cultural Studies and the Future of Comparative Literature
• 14. Cultural Studies and Canonical Literature Studies
• 15. Postmodernity in Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture
• 16. The Characteristics of Schizophrenia in Contemporary Chinese Literature.
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The first comprehensive critique of the critical and cultural theories after postmodernism by a Chinese scholar in a international and comparative manner. Offers a panoramic overview of the critical and cultural theories in the 20th century in a theoretical way. Offers non-EuroAmerican perspectives on Western literary theories and cultural trends.
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• 1. Middle Chinese Initials System
• 2. Middle Chinese Finals and Tone System
• 3. The Evolution of Initial System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language
• 4. The Evolution of Final System from Old Chinese to the Middle Chinese Language I
• 5. The Evolution of Final System from the Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language II
• 6. The Evolution of Final System from the Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language III
• 7. The Evolution of the Tone System from the Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language.
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• 1. Phonetic System of the Modern Chinese Language
• 2. The Development of the Initial System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 3. The Development of the Vowel Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 4. The Development of the Nasal Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 5. The Development of the Entering Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 6. The Development of the Tone System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 7. Formation of the Standard Pronunciation of Common Language of Modern Han Nationality.
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• 1. Research Purpose, Significance, Perspectives, and Methodology
• 2. Grounded Basis of Studying the History of the Chinese Language
• 3. The Development of the Chinese Language and the Race of the Han Society
• 4. The Development of Chinese Characters and the Developmental History of the Chinese Language
• 5. Phases and Stages of the Developmental History of the Chinese Language
• 6. The Initial System of Old Chinese Language
• 7. The Rhyme Group System (1) of the Old Chinese Language
• 8. The Rhyme Group System (2) of the Old Chinese Language
• 9. The Tone System of Old Chinese Language.
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• Volume I
• 1. Research Purpose, Significance, Perspectives, and Methodology
• 2. Grounded Basis of Studying the History of Chinese Language
• 3. The Development of Chinese Language and the Race of Han Society
• 4. The Development of Chinese Characters and the Developmental History of Chinese Language
• 5. Phases and Stages of the Developmental History of Chinese Language
• 6. The Initial System of Old Chinese Language
• 7. The Rhyme Group System (1) of Old Chinese Language
• 8. The Rhyme Group System (2) of Old Chinese Language
• 9. The Tone System of Old Chinese Language Volume II
• 1. Middle Chinese Initials System
• 2. Middle Chinese Finals and Tone System
• 3. The Evolution of Initial System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language
• 4. The Evolution of Final System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language I
• 5. The Evolution of Final System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language II
• 6. The Evolution of Final System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language III
• 7. The Evolution of Tone System from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese Language Volume III
• 1. Phonetic System of Modern Chinese Language
• 2. The Development of Initial System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 3. The Development of Vowel Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 4. The Development of Nasal Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 5. The Development of Entering Final System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 6. The Development of Tone System from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese
• 7. Formation of the Standard Pronunciation of Common Language of Modern Han Nationality Volume IV
• 1. Studying Words of the Shang Dynasty from Oracle Bone Inscriptions
• 2. The Progress of Monosyllabic Words of Old Chinese
• 3. The Progress of Polysyllabic Words of Old Chinese
• 4. The Progress of Lexical Meanings of Old Chinese
• 5. The Progress of Synonyms of Old Chinese
• 6. The Progress of Idioms and Proverbs of Old Chinese Volume V
• 1. The Development of Monosyllabic Words of Middle Chinese
• 2. The Development of Polysyllabic Words of Middle Chinese
• 3. The Development of Lexical Meanings of Middle Chinese Volume VI
• 1. The Influence of Foreign Culture on the Development of Middle Chinese Lexicon
• 2. The Development of Synonyms of Middle Chinese
• 3. The Development of Idioms and Proverbs of Middle Chinese Volume VII
• 1. The Emergence of Modern Neologisms and Penetration of Mongolian and Manchu into the Chinese Lexicon
• 2. The Innovation of Polysyllabic Words of Modern Chinese
• 3. The Development of Chinese Lexicon in Modern Times Volume VIII
• 1. The Influence of Modern Western Culture on the Development of the Chinese Lexicon
• 2. The Innovation of Synonyms in Modern Chinese
• 3. The Innovation of Idioms and Proverbs of Modern Chinese
• 4. The Innovation of Chinese Lexicon after the May Fourth Movement.
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A groundbreaking work on Chinese linguistics by a distinguised linguist A full picture of phonetical system from old Chinese to modern Chinese Illustrated with concrete examples.
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The eight-volume set systematically studies the phonetic and lexical system and evolution of the Chinese language in three phases. The history of the Chinese language is generally split into three phases: 1) Old Chinese, the form of the Chinese language spoken between the 18th century BC and the 3rd century AD, 2) Middle Chinese, between the 4th century AD to around the 12th century AD, and 3) Modern Chinese, since the 13th century, comprised of an 'early modern' phase before the early 20th century and the contemporary period since. The first three volumes examine the phonetical systems of the language in each period and distinct changes across time, covering the initials system, finals system and tone system. The subsequent 5 volumes focus on lexical development throughout the different phases. The author also analyses basic issues of Chinese language study, the standardization of a modern common language and the foreign influence on the lexicon, helping us to better understand the history and development of the Chinese language. Illustrated with abundant examples, this comprehensive groundwork on Chinese phonetical history will be a must read for scholars and students studying Chinese language, linguistics and especially Chinese phonetics and lexicon.
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• The formative period 1910s-1920s
• The first flowering of modern poetry 1930s-1940s
• The modernist movement and surrealism 1950s-1960s
• Underground poetry, nativism, and women's voices 1970s-1980s
• The anti-sublime and multiculturalism 1980s-1990s
• New lyricism and postmodernist experiments, The new millenium.

"This book-a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's Modern Chinese Poetry, (Yale University Press, 1992)-aims to be the most comprehensive anthology of modern Chinese poetry in English translation. It spans the entire history of modern Chinese poetry from 1917 to the present, and contains the work of 83 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Singapore), who are represented by nearly 270 poems"-- Provided by publisher.

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