East Asian Ecocriticisms

A Critical Reader
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27431-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4679 g

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Estok, S.

Kim, W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Won-Chung Kim 1. Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms; Simon C. Estok 2. Towards a Language of Life: Ecological Identity in the Work of Morisaki Kazue; Yuki Masami 3. First There Were Stories: Ishimure Michiko's Narratives of Resistance and Reconciliation; Bruce Allen 4. A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of 'Matsuri [Festival]' by Hiromi Ito; Keitaro Morita 5. Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature; Won-Chung Kim 6. The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology: (Re)Configuring Korean Environmental Discourse and Ecocriticism; Dooho Shin 7. Divided Circumstances of Korea and the Imagination of the Border; Chan Je Wu 8. Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to it in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale and the poetry of Sheng Wu; Peter I-min Huang 9. 'Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time: Wu Mingyi's Nature Writing and the Aesthetics of Change; Shiuhhuah Serena Chou 10. 'Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism; Kathryn Yalan Chang 11. 'Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism; Yang Jincai 12. 'Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture: Reading Chen Yingsong's Shennongjia Stories; Lily Chen Hong 13. 'On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation; Cheng Xiangzhan 14. 'Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures; Karen Thornber

Über Autor(innen)

Yuki Masami, Kanazawa University, Japan
Bruce Allen, Seisen University, Japan
Keitaro Morita, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA
Dooho Shin, Kangwon National University, South Korea
Chan-Je Wu, Sogang University, South Korea
Peter I-min Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Yalan Chang, Huafan University, Taiwan
Chen Hong, Shanghai Normal University, China
Liu Bei, Shandong Normal University, China
Jincai Yang, Nanjing University, China
Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA