Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific /

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"Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- (Editor ), Chua, Rina Garcia (Editor ), Amin-Hong, Heidi, 1990- (Editor ), Santa Ana, Jeffrey, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postcolonialism in literature.
Pacific Island literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
American literature > Asian American authors.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Pacific Island literature > History and criticism.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Out of the ruins / Macarena Gómez-Barris
  • Introduction: Confronting ecological ruination in the transpacific / Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing
  • Part I. (Framing) postcolonial ecocritical approaches to the Asia-Pacific
  • Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez
  • Transpacific queer ecologies: ecological ruin, imperialist nostalgia, and indigenous erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited / Jeffrey Santa Ana
  • Cycas wadei and enduring white space / Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
  • Rust and recovery: a study of South Indian goddess films / Chitra Sankaran
  • "If we return we will learn": empire, poetry, and biocultural knowledge in Papua New Guinea / John Charles Ryan
  • Part II. Militarized Environments
  • "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez
  • Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Emily Cheng
  • Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Heidi Amin-Hong
  • Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / Zhou Xiaojing
  • Part III. Decolonizing the transpacific: settler colonialism and indigenous resistance
  • "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez
  • Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / Rebecca H. Hogue
  • "Disentrancing" the rot of colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry / Rina Garcia Chua
  • Representing postcolonial water environments in contemporary Taiwanese literature / Ti-Han Chang
  • Part IV. Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities
  • "Age of Plastic" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez
  • Climate justice in the transpacific novel / Amy Lee
  • Rising like waves: drowning settler colonial rhetoric with Aloha / Emalani Case
  • Imperial debris, vibrant matter: plastic in the hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli artists / Chad Shomura
  • Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" / Priscilla Wald
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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