MĀNOA is a unique, award-winning literary journal that includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of current cultural or literary interest. An outstanding feature of each issue is original translations of contemporary work from Asian and Pacific nations, selected for each issue by a special guest editor. Beautifully produced, MĀNOA presents traditional alongside […]
Asymptote Journal features a compelling review of Story is a Vagabond: Fiction, Essays and Drama by Intizar Husain, published by MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (27:1, 2015) and UH Press. One of Pakistan’s most distinguished writers, Intizar Husain was born in India in 1923 and immigrated to Pakistan during the Partition. An internationally […]
Urdu literature icon Intizar Husain has been called “the greatest living writer in the Urdu language, a living legend, and Pakistan’s chronicler of change.” As the world reflects on his literary legacy following his death on Feb. 2, we share the recent MANOA journal, Story is a Vagabond, that showcases his work. Story is a […]
From the Editor, v Special Issue Section: Women in Asian Theatre Introduction: Women in Asian Theatre: Conceptual, Political, and Aesthetic Paradigms Arya Madhavan, 345 A conference titled Women in Asian Theatre was held at the University of Lincoln in September 2013, and papers from that gathering form the core of this issue. The rationale in […]
Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing Story Is A Vagabond: Fiction, Essays, and Drama by Intizar Husain Guest Editors: Alok Bhalla, Asif Farrukhi, and Nishat Zaidi Intizar Husain has been called the greatest living writer in the Urdu language, a living legend, and Pakistan’s preeminent chronicler of change. His voice of compassion […]
ARTICLES Visions of Juliana: A Portuguese Woman at the Court of the Mughals Taymiya R. Zaman, 761 This article discusses Juliana Dias da Costa (d. 1734), an influential Portuguese woman at the court of the Mughal king Bahadur Shah I (d. 1712). Through an analysis of sources that traverse three centuries and several languages, this […]
The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India, by Kavita Datla, pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion. The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the […]
Editor’s Note, iii PLAY Three Dollars in National Currency: A One-Act Comedy by Ding Xilin Introduction and Translation by Christopher G. Rea, 173
Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing Crossing Over: Partition Literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Edited by Frank Stewart and Sukrita Paul Kumar Crossing Over comprises stories from three South Asian countries—India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—with a combined population of over two billion. The works here focus on the cataclysmic experiences of Partition […]
ARTICLES Embodying Okhotsk Ethnicity: Human Skeletal Remains from the Aonae Dune Site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, 1 Hirofumi Matsumura, Mark J. Hudson, Kenichiro Koshida, and Yoichi Minakawa
SPECIAL ISSUE: South Asia GUEST EDITORS: Peter Johansen, Kathleen Morrison, and Namita Sugandhi REMEMBERING C. S. PATIL, 185 Channabasappa Soodayya Patil (1951–2001) Carla M. Sinopoli and Kathleen D. Morrison
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