Questioning Borders - Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.

Sommario

Introduction: Ecoliteratures Inhabiting Borders
1. Beijing Westerns and Hanspace Elixirs in Southwest China
2. Grassland Logic and Desert Carbon Imaginaries in Inner Mongolia
3. Sacred Routes and Dark Humor in Grounded Xinjiang
4. Cosmic Ecologies and Transcendent Tricksters on the Tibetan Plateau
5. Island Excursions and Indigenous Waterways in Activist Taiwan
Epilogue: Indigenous Entanglements in Techno Hypersubjectivity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Robin Visser

Riassunto

Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robin Visser
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231199810
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19981-0
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Global Chinese Culture
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; China, Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000