Migrant Ecologies - Zheng Xiaoqiong''s Women Migrant Workers

Migrant Ecologies investigates how Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies with local and global networks of capital and labor and the challenges faced by women migrant workers.

List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Migrant Ecologies as a Site of Critical Inquiry

Chapter 1: Vignettes of Material Memoirs: Toxic Environment and Women Migrant Workers' Industrial Diseases

Chapter 2: "Carceral Capitalism": Factory Cities and Villages-in-the-City

Chapter 3: The Other Scene of Globalization: Hollow Villages and Migrant Workers' Families

Conclusion: A Politics of Migrant Ecologies

Bibliography

Index

About the Author and Translator

About the author

Zheng Xiaoqiong, a critically acclaimed contemporary poet in China, has published twelve collections of poetry.



Zhou Xiaojing is professor of English at University of the Pacific. She is the author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature and The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry.

Summary

Migrant Ecologies investigates how Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies with local and global networks of capital and labor and the challenges faced by women migrant workers.

Product details

• Authors: Zhou Xiaojing
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498580632
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8063-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General