Social challenges for Vietnam
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2024) Issue1 Social challenges for Vietnam Introduction Introduction Introduction: challenging transformations for Vietnam John H…
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Siraj // Begam Lutf-un-nisã
there are many gems to be found in the life and death of Siraj. The Gardens by his tomb are most peaceful, and here I read and honoured…
Women of Indology?
Caroline Michaelis, Böhmer, Schlegel, Schelling. Just leaving this here to look for later – seems there is more to the story of the founding of Indology… “Schlegel, Carolin…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
To cite this article: John Hutnyk (2023): Robinson Crusoe: After the island, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449…
Arabian Nights: abriged too far (longest-kept trinket-exotica)
The 1821 Galland version of the Thousand and One Nights. “slightly abridged” with eight full colour drawings by Joan Kiddel-Monroe. 1965 reprint, Dent & Sons. …
Anaïs Nin to Edgard Varèse.
how why *painting is of Varèse by Raffaello Brusoni 1954
A Rhinoceros in the Library: Marx’s Sources on India
Read on here: marx-for-chandernagorechicagoDownload
Book Burning
Are we living in the greatest ever era of incineration? Add your favourite book burning quotes here. Bradbury’s F◦451, Maugham’s Razors Edge, Umberto Eco’s name of the Rose,…
Footnote
‘The bookbinding trade in the city of London employs very many young girls from 14 to 15 years old, and that under indentures which prescribe certain definite hours…
180 years of fashion. RIP Mary Anne Walkley.
as reported in the Sterling Observer (2 July 1863).
Black Swan
“Willem de Vlamingh was sent in 1696 to search for two VOC ships, Ridderschap van Holland (Knighthood of Holland), which had gone missing on its way to Batavia…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
Maarx Darwin Malthus Hegel
How to read this one – and fun. Marx’s handwriting, that Engels had such trouble to decipher later on (and used some interesting help) is here well hard…
Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Robinson so far…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353?src=recsys https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204?src=recsys https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1…
If commodities could speak… Amatav Ghosh drops a penny in his new book “Smoke and Ashes”
It is amazing to see the trinketization penny drop – more than 150 years after Marx had called it out – here is trinketization coming to consciousness, in…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
The third in a series of Robinsonades… Email me to get the pdf – and those for the two earlier iterations of my work on Defoe: here and…
Утро Индии Morning in India – 1956 film by Roman Karmen
Even greater than landing on the moon was throwing off the English yoke – reel two of this amazing film by Roman Karmen (4 parts from https://www.net-film.ru/) has…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
oh Yoko
Yoko Ono handed this artwork to me on arrival at her show somewhere in shoreditch about 2000. Christies auction house offers considered… dm me with your bids. This…
The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…