Karen Thornber, Henry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, recently published a new monograph Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures: A Casebook (Modern Language Association). 

This casebook investigates how diverse writers from across East, South, and Southeast Asia and their diasporas have engaged with the struggle for gender justice. Each chapter analyzes works of literature originally written in Bengali, Chinese, English, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Marathi, Thai, and Vietnamese. Informed by the author’s deep knowledge of literature, history, culture, law, and social conditions, this book will be a resource for instructors and students in gender studies, women’s studies, ethnic studies, Asian studies, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora studies, comparative literature, and world literature.

More information can be found here on the MLA website.