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...Margaret E. Derreti Mulk Raj Anand: The Man and the Novelist . By Margaret Berry . Amsterdam : Oriental Press , 1971 . 114 pp. Bibliography, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS from sons of government officials, executives...

... 1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. By CHARLES S H I R O I N O U Y E . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $40.00. Charles Inouye tells us in his preface that he began thinking about Izumi Kyoka when he was still an undergraduate student majoring in Japanese literature. He went...

... , p. 211. 7 W. S. Maugham, The summing up , pp. 264, 271–72. 2 Miln. op. cit ., p. 257. THE NOVELIST DISCOVERS THE ORIENT CHARLES S. BRADEN* Northwestern University IT HAS been pointed out often enough in recent years that we moderns are dependent at every turn upon goods...

...Guohe Zheng Five Modern Japanese Novelists . By Donald Keene . New York : Columbia University Press , 2003 . ix, 113 pp. $24.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1244 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Although she does not profess to generalize...

...Robin Jared Lewis Novelists and Political Consciousness: Literary Expression of Indian Nationalism, 1919–1947 . By Suresht Renjen Bald . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press , 1982 . xvi, 175 pp. Bibliography, Index. $16.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Robin Jared Lewis Gandhian Thought and Indo-Anglian Novelists . By Ramā Jha . Delhi : Chanakya Publications , 1983 . 209 pp. Bibliography. Index. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 635 useful, though flawed, ethnography...

...Leslie A. Flemming Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue: New Cultural Identities . Edited by Guy Amirthanayagam . Hong Kong : Macmillan , 1982 . xii, 220 pp. Index. $24. (Distributed by Humanities Press.) Indian-English Novelists: An Anthology of Critical Essays . Edited...

...John Ashmead Two Japanese Novelists, Soseki and Toson . By Edwin McClellan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1969 . xii, 168 pp. Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 195 Harvard East Asian Series, most if not all of which...

..., and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists – born between the 1950s and 1980s – to this new climate. It considers the way in which writers have become entrepreneurs, managing their own...

...Howard S. Hibbett Abstract In Japan, as in the West, the novelist has become his own favorite character. But the Japanese novelist (or short-story writer) seems less anxious to conceal his predilection than to flaunt it, so many frank self-portraits are there in the gallery of sbōsetsu . He appears...

... choice of complicity versus resistance. Yi Kwang-su (1892–1950?), Korea's most distinguished modern novelist as well as one of its more notorious pro-Japanese partisans during the colonial period, offers a compelling test case for how we might attempt to not only understand, but also morally adjudicate...

... of Hoàng Tố Anh) in 1910, the same year that another Southerner, Trủỏng Duy Toản (illustration 1), published Phan Yên ngoại s (An unofficial history of Phan Yên). Hồ Biểu Chánh (illustration 2), who was to become the most prolific southern novelist, published his first novel, Ai làm c (Who can do...

... Myŏngsu's Mother of the South (1965), showing how the play rewrites the South Korean novelist An Tongnim's short story “Hope” (1963) in such a way as to engineer a convergence with a line of literary representations then being produced in the North about its own colonial-era “revolutionary heritage...

...Julia Lovell Abstract This article traces the intellectual evolution of Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948), a contemporary Chinese poet, novelist, essayist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, from Mao-era radicalism to Islamic internationalism. Allegedly the inventor of the term “Red Guard” in the context...

... by the outpouring of vernacular narratives from women's writing brushes that were eclipsing male endeavors to emulate Chinese classics, or to an exasperated modern Japanese novelist in reference to the neo-Heian phenomenon, namely, the renaissance of women's literature in postwar Japan. Actually it was Nathaniel...

... into society. Banks veers between treating the Malay novelist as a social analyst and as an informant. Initially we are led to expect that he will analyze his authors' analyses. 924 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The distinction between Banks's views and those of his authors, however, is constantly blurred: he...

... Pollack-ie«i« contributes to that grand exercise with Reading against Culture, an insightful, challenging, and enjoyable study of seven modern Japanese novelists. Pollack's stated concern is to bring close readings of particular Japanese novels to bear on Western and Japanese ideas on the relation between...

... ( London , 1961 ), pp. 5, 7, 19; Taylor Alastair M. , “ The Historical Novel as a Source in History ,” Sewanee Review , 46 (Oct. 1938 ), 475 ; Belloc Hillaire , “ The Character of an Historical Novelist ,” London Mercury , 9 (Nov. 1924 ), 37 – 38 . 32...

... the Occupation than a suitcase full of sermons. Unfortunately Mr. Richie has learned somewhere that the novelist is also a teacher; when a priest is knocked down we take a few moments out to explain the Japanese notion of duty (in the gospel according to Ruth Benedict). And there are also set pieces on democracy...