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This book offers a timely exploration of the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism and gives prominence to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors emphasize the transnational flows between Southeast Asian countries and Australia, England, Taiwan (Formosa), and the United States.
List of contents
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Southeast Asian Ecocriticism
John Charles Ryan
Chapter 2 Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of Thailand
Ignasi Ribó
Chapter 3 Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and Prose
Jeffrey Santa Ana
Chapter 4 Imaging Indigenous Relationships With Nature: The Case of Igorot Music Videos
Jason Paolo R. Telles
Chapter 5 Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis's Novel Fish-Hair Woman
Chitra Sankaran
Chapter 6 Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of "Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham" from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart)
Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng
Chapter 7 Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat's Poetry
Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon
Chapter 8 From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of Myanmar
John Charles Ryan
Chapter 9 Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Past: A Reading of the Representations of Forests and Rivers in Post-war Vietnamese Narratives
Tran Ngoc Hieu and Dang Thi Thai Ha
Chapter 10 Sowing Seeds: Phytocriticism and the Botanical Dimensions of Indonesian Literature for Children and Young Adults
Richard Li and John Charles Ryan
Chapter 11 Transnational Paradigm: Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony in Thailand
Wasinrat Nualsiri
Chapter 12 Economics, Ecology, and Desire: Delineations of Formosa and Neighboring Southeast Asian Countries in Three Nineteenth-Century Travelers' Natural Histories
Li-Ru Lu
Epilogue Ziggy Stardust and the Irrawaddy Dolphin: Prospects for a Transboundary Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia
John Charles Ryan
About the author
Edited by John Charles Ryan - Contributions by Tran Ngoc Hieu; Dang Thi Thai Ha; Richard Li; Li-Ru Lu; Wasinrat Nualsiri; Ignasi Ribó; Chitra Sankaran; Jeffrey Santa Ana; Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon; Jason Paolo R. Telles and Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng
Summary
This book offers a timely exploration of the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism and gives prominence to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors emphasize the transnational flows between Southeast Asian countries and Australia, England, Taiwan (Formosa), and the United States.
