East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
β Scribed by Simon C. Estok, Won-Chung Kim (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 281
- Series
- Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Partial Views....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Toward a Language of Life....Pages 17-33
First There Were Stories....Pages 35-57
A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of βMatsuri [Festival]β by Hiromi Ito....Pages 59-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature....Pages 77-90
The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology....Pages 91-110
Koreaβs Divided Circumstances and the Imagination of the Border....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to It in Linda Hoganβs People of the Whale and in Sheng Wuβs Poetry....Pages 125-143
Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time....Pages 145-163
Ang Liβs The Butcherβs Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism....Pages 165-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism....Pages 187-204
Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture....Pages 205-220
On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation....Pages 221-236
Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures....Pages 237-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-279
β¦ Subjects
Asian Literature;Postcolonial/World Literature;Fiction
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