East Asian Ecocriticisms [electronic resource] : A Critical Reader /
Estok, S.editor.
Kim, W.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Won-Chung Kim -- Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms / Simon C. Estok -- Toward a Language of Life: Ecological Identity in the Work of Morisaki Kazue / Masami Yuki -- First There Were Stories: Michiko Ishimure's Narratives of Resistance and Reconciliation / Bruce Allen -- A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of "Matsuri (Festival)" by Hiromi Ito / Keitaro Morita -- Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature / Won-Chung Kim -- The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology: (Re)Configuring Korean Environmental Discourse and Ecocriticism / Dooho Shin -- Korea's Divided Circumstances and the Imagination of the Border / Chan Je Wu -- Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to it in Linda Hogan's "People of the Whale" and Sheng Wu's poetry / Peter I-min Huang -- Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time: Mingyi Wu's Nature Writing and the Aesthetics of Change / Shiuhhuah Serena Chou -- Ang Li's "The Butcher's Wife" (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism / Kathryn Yalan Chang -- Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism / Jincai Yang -- Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture: Reading Yingsong Chen's Shennongjia Stories / Lily Chen Hong -- On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation / Xiangzhan Cheng -- Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures / Karen Thornber.
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.
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