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Zusatztext "Taking up matters from restoration of the ancient Cheongye stream as an urban water park in downtown Seoul to the fight to protect the pink dolphins of Western Taiwan from petrochemical plant pollution! the volume succeeds in giving an East Asian voice and specificity to globally experienced environmental concerns . . . Reecommended." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Yuki Masami, Kanazawa University, JapanBruce Allen, Seisen University, JapanKeitaro Morita, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USADooho Shin, Kangwon National University, South KoreaChan-Je Wu, Sogang University, South KoreaPeter I-min Huang, Tamkang University, TaiwanShiuhhuah Serena Chou, National Sun Yat-sen University, TaiwanYalan Chang, Huafan University, TaiwanChen Hong, Shanghai Normal University, ChinaLiu Bei, Shandong Normal University, ChinaJincai Yang, Nanjing University, ChinaKaren Thornber, Harvard University, USA Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...
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
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"Taking up matters from restoration of the ancient Cheongye stream as an urban water park in downtown Seoul to the fight to protect the pink dolphins of Western Taiwan from petrochemical plant pollution, the volume succeeds in giving an East Asian voice and specificity to globally experienced environmental concerns . . . Reecommended." - CHOICE
