UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Studies \| Hinduism \| Poetry \| Folklore and Mythology \| South Asia \| Social Theory \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan Bahu Author: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| Religion \| Poetry \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Islam \| South Asia Publisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Latin American History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia Author: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| Politics \| Asian History \| Religion Publisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Japan \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called im . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies \| African Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The spirit of freedom: South African leaders on religion and politics Author: Villa-Vicencio, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that infor . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies \| Sociology \| Law Publisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the politics of writing Author: Attwell, David Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| African Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's wri . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies \| African History \| Sociology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Author: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medicine \| Medical Anthropology \| African Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| Comparative Literature \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items