Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia

Rethinking the Human
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-11986-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and ethical responsibilities, seeking to fill a major lacuna in previous academic literature around ecocriticism in speculative fiction. Contributions are thematically organized into three sections—Human-Nature Co-evolution and Ecomedia, Technologies and East Asian Heritage, and Posthuman Ecology. Chapter authors draw on global viewpoints to provide a multi-dimensional analysis that includes Indigenous knowledge, trans-local (inter-Asian) exchanges, and perspectives from the Global South. To end, the book provides a reflection on how speculative fiction promotes a vision of interconnected kinship among humans, the nonhuman, and the natural world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Xinmin

Li, Hua

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Part One.-Human-Nature Coevolution and Ecomedia.-1. -Biodiversity Restoration and Coevolution in Shuang Chimu’s “My Family and Other Evolving Animals”.-2-. “Experiential Seeing”.-Embodied Encounters in Speculative Fiction in China and East Asia.-3.- “It’s also of our Pig-Basket Grass clan”.- The Prospect of Kin-Making in Kuei-hsing Chang’s Monkey Cup.-Part Two.-Technologies and the East Asian Heritages.-4. -The Cold Eyes of Karma.-Myth and Rationality in Chinese Science Fiction.-5.-Labor Ecologies and Roboticization in the Fiction of Hiroko Oyamada and Pabsi Livmar.-6.- Cyborg Lovers in Chinese Science Fiction.-7.- Posthuman Sexualities in in Natsuko Mori’s “Pet Boy” and “Unmoral Contraption”.-Part Three.- Posthuman Ecology.-8. -Sinking into Posthuman Inhumanity and Death.-Warnings from Chinese Science Fiction.-9.- Fourth Space.- Kin-Making against Capitalist Modernity in Post-Socialist China.-10. -“Making Kin” and “Imhumanism” in Chinese Science Fiction on Chen Qiufan’s The Post Human Age (2018).-11. -Korean Kinship Traditions and the Global Anthropocene.- “Woori-ism” in Choyeop Kim’sThe Greenhouse at the End of the Earth.

Über Autor(innen)

Xinmin Liu  is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University, USA. His previous book publications include  (2004) and  (2021, co-edited with Peter I-min Huang). 

Hua Li is Professor of Chinese at Montana State University, USA. Her previous book publications include  (2021),  (2011), and  (2024, co-edited with Mingwei Song and Nathaniel Isaacson).