Author: Mark Bender File Type: pdf This book is in theCambria Sinophone World Seriesheaded by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania). This unprecedented volume presents important cultural works from the borders, margins, buffer zones, transitional areas, and frontiers from within and around the mega-states of China and India, subsumed within the larger geo-political constructs of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Many are from communities of poets or individuals writing within the watersheds of the Eastern Himalayas, an area encompassing North East India, Myanmar, and Southwest China. A number are from farther north in Western China and the steppes of Inner Mongolia and the nation of Mongolia. This book is a rare collection that brings together the works of poets of diverse cultural backgrounds located in places that are only beginning to be recognized globally as sites of intense poetic work. Major themes that penetrate these works are rapid environmental change and subsequent effects on traditional culture and challenges to ethnic and personal identity. These concerns are often framed within imagery of the local folk culture and local geographic environment, which are under increasing pressures of development by local and international governments and business enterprises. This volume offers a substantial glimpse into contemporary poetry from exciting but under-represented poetic voices speaking out in the border areas of eastern Asia. The collection reflects the high energy, sense of purpose, and deep insight and feeling of highly sensitive poets living in times of cultural and environmental change. The Borderlands of Asiais an important book for Asian studies, Indigenous literature studies, and literature of the environment studies. **

Author: Anthony Cordingley File Type: pdf This book maps out the novels complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the works great significance for twentieth-century literature. It offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel, identifying Becketts use of previously unknown sources in the history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods, and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the book traces Becketts transformation of his narrators ancient voice, his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic representation that offers the means to think beyond intractable paradoxes of philosophy. This shift in the works relation to tradition marks a hiatus in literary modernism, a watershed moment whose deep and enduring significance may now be appreciated. **About the Author Anthony Cordingley is ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of English, University of Sydney, on secondment from the Universite Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, where he is Associate Professor in English and Translation Studies.