{"product_id":"the-other-nepal-puspa-damai-9781009704199","title":"The Other Nepal: Alterity in Nepali Literature and Culture","description":"This book revisits a rich but overlooked field of Nepali literature and culture. Compared to the extensive research available on Nepal's South Asian neighbors, there is a notable scarcity of published scholarship devoted to Nepali literature and society. This book addresses the gap by offering groundbreaking scholarship by a global collective of researchers specializing in Himalayan Studies, South Asian Studies, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. It offers a nuanced and complex picture of Nepali society and history, focusing on caste, geography, gender, sexuality and ethnicity as sites of discrimination, exclusion and othering. It exposes orientalist discourses which portray Nepal as a Himalayan Shangri La and it critiques neoliberal narratives which focus on Nepal's dismal developmental indices. Switching gears by exploring a diverse body of canonical and contemporary multi-genre literary works, the book presents an alternative picture of Nepal from the perspective of those silenced by nationalism, patriarchy and casteism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Puspa Damai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1009704192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781009704199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Puspa Damai","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48440620482815,"sku":"9781009704199","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c530851-c689-42f2-93c0-4c627279d778.jpg?v=1777183668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-other-nepal-puspa-damai-9781009704199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}