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“What a pleasure to see Laksmi Pamuntjak’s poems and prose texts in one generous volume that bears witness to her versatility and dexterity in both those genres, long before her name became internationally known for her splendid fi rst novel. Her multivocal stories intertwine with the lush, layered textures of art and music, and her elliptical, deft poems observe with a clear eye the cityscapes of our own restless lives, whether in Jakarta or London, New York or Berlin.” —Aamer Hussein, author of Another Gulmohar Tree, The Cloud Messenger, Insomnia “It is clear from her beautiful poetry and prose that Laksmi Pamuntjak knows the human heart has many chambers (who cares what doctors ...
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Presents a comprehensive A to Z reference with approximately 450 entries providing facts about contemporary British poets, including their major works of poetry, concepts and movements.
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EIGHTH HABITATION is the fourth collection by Adam Aitken. These poems questions notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real: ex-lovers dead and alive, a hungover businessman en-route to Bali, a failed detective, a tourist caught in a religious blackout, wanderer poets and their muses, dragons, megalomaniac Hindu deities, terrorists and other undomesticated creatures.
An anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 50 years since the city was made Wales' capital. This work includes contributions from some of the finest writers in Britain, all of whom have something personal and original to say about the city, both in English and in translation from the Welsh - Niall Griffiths, Dannie Abse, and others.
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world. Located within current discourse surrounding Asian poetry, postcolonial and migrant writing, and bridging the fields of literary and cultural criticism with author interviews, this book provides close readings on established and emerging Chinese diasporic poets' work by incorporating the writers' own reflections on their craft through interviews with some o...
這本不是教科書,不是理論著作,更不是為了浪費讀者時間而設計撰寫的娛樂讀物。這是一本以筆記非小說的創新形式,從多元角度深入淺出,剖析文學、商業等領域,翻譯時所遇到的各類疑難問題。 本書是累積三十多年翻譯之經驗,三十多本中英文譯著之小成。各種中英文譯例皆出自作者日常翻譯工作和翻譯教學,廣泛閱讀對比譯作譯著,以及大量瀏覽翻譯史書等所獲的寶貴心得。【秀威資訊科技股份有限公司製作】
本書從一個具有澳洲公民、前中國公民、雙語寫作者和雙語翻譯者等多重身分作者的特殊視角,圍繞「中國」這一關鍵字,以後現代的散碎性思維和簡潔的筆記小說筆法,結合日記、筆記、信件、翻譯等多種方式,全面深入地探討了文學、歷史、文藝批評、中西詩歌、文化身分、英漢文學翻譯、英漢雙語對比、中澳文學文化對比等主題,熔古今於一爐,集中外於一體,評人論事敢於一針見血,談今說古自有獨到見解。【秀威資訊科技股份有限公司製作】
The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cul...