Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

✍ Scribed by Shiuhhuah Serena Chou (editor), Soyoung Kim (editor), Rob Sean Wilson (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this “worlding” process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Taiwan Shiu-mo
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Worlding Asia Pacific into Oceania—Worlding Concepts, Tactics, and Transfigurations against the Anthropocene
Late-Capitalist “Deworlding”: Globalizing Is Not Worlding
Dynamics of Deworlding, Worlding, Reworlding
Moving from Deworlding to Reworlding
Worlding Asia Models
Figuring Oceans in the Anthropocene
Geospatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: A Rationale
Part I: Unearthing and Historicizing Regions (deworlding/dismantling/reworlding life worlds and values (asia reworlding?)
Chapter 2: Geopolitical Fantasy: Continental Action Movies
Geofantasy Elsewhere
Identification Trouble in an Imagined Landscape
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Dan Dan Mian, Hip-Hop, and Baohaus: Transpacific and Interracial World-Making in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat
Transpacific Migrations and Diasporic Connections
Interracial Alliance: Yellow Face, Black Mask5
Activist Chef: Huang Can Cook7
Coda
Works Cited
Chapter 4: The Place of Worlding: Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in Central Asia and Korea
In the World
The Lost World
Kim Alex’s Story
Cosmopolitanism and the Third World
Subaltern Cosmopolitanism
Worlding
Process of Becoming: Worlding as Happening
Worlding as Storytelling
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Filipinese
Chapter 6: My Beast, My Brother, and My Alpha Creation
Part II: Activism, Vision, and Intervention (critical and literary analyses of protests, social movements, and activism as forms of resistance/deworlding/alter-worlding; new forms and levels of crossing, contacts, and convergences across disciplines and s
Chapter 7: Violence, Magic, Certainty: Journalistic Worlding and Middle East War
Magical Explanation
Corresponding the Foreign
Explanatory Magic
Writing Violence
Articulating Power
Works Cited
Chapter 8: Refugee Migration Through the Division System: On the Ethics of Copresence in Krys Lee’s How I Became a North Korean
The Refugee Connection
The Loneliness of Freedom
Literature as Activism
Works Cited
Chapter 9: The Crusades and a Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali’s Activism and Alternative World in The Book of Saladin
(Un-)Worlding: (Post-)Colonial Histories and Typical Representation
An Alternative World: The Singular
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora
Histories
Marcos and the Balikbayan Program
Filipino Labor Migration
Balikbayan Box
Balikbayan
Histories Too: Figurations of Balikbayan Boxes
A
B
Figurations and Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Call Me Ishimaru
Works Cited
Part III: Planetary Creation: Critique and Cosmos (reworlding at the Anthropocene/planetary/environmental level)
Chapter 12: Flow or Friction? Ecological Transnationalism in Japanese TV Anime
Transnational Media Flows and East Asian Popular Culture
Anime Discounted
Rewrite: Towards Global Environmental Citizenship?
Conclusion: Friction and Flow
Works Cited
Television Shows
Published Sources
Chapter 13: Hurricanes and Kaiju: Climate Change and Toxicity Across the Pacific in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Kaiju and Climate Change
Rewriting U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
Monsters in a Militarized Pacific
Works Cited
Chapter 14: Albatross Unbound: Worlding the Plastic Sea
Albatross Bound
Albatross Unbound
Chapter 15: Agrarian Witnessing and Worlding for the Anthropocene
An Economy of Care
Urban Worlding and Unworlding
The Standard of Nature
Learning to Die
Mystery as a Guide
Solastalgia and the Act of Witnessing
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Listening to Archipelago Rains
Chapter 17: Trans-Oceanic Psalm
Afterword: Reworlding as Hope in the Anthropocene
Index