Ecocriticism in Taiwan : identity, environment, and the arts / edited by Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chang, Chia-ju, editor.

Slovic, Scott, editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the vibrant development of the field of ecocriticism on the island of Taiwan, there has, as yet, been no single volume in English dedicated to illustrating Taiwan's important contributions to international ecocriticism, especially the emerging "vernacular" trend in the field that emphasizes the significance of local perspectives and styles, including non-western, aboriginal, and comparative approaches. Ecocriticism in Taiwan provides a model for a more nuanced version of the locale-specific, vernacular thinking about the environment, art, and human identity.

Contents:

Introduction

Island identities, eco-postcolonial historiography, and alter(native) strategies. Going back into a future of simplicity: Taiwan aborigines' sustainable utilization of natural resources / Ming-tu Yang

(W)ri(gh)ting climate change in Neqou Soqluman's work / Hsinya Huang

Taiwan is a whale: the emerging oneness of dark blue and human identity in Chia-hsiang Wang's historical fiction / Shu-fen Tsai

Taiwanese mountain and river literature from a postcolonial perspective / Peter I-min Huang

Agrarian origin stories, national imaginaries, and the ironies of modern environmentalism: on Chi-po Lin' Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above / Hannes Bergthaller

Slow violence, creative activism, and environmental movements. Toxic objects, slow violence, and the ethics of trans-corporeality in Chi Wen-chang's The poisoned sky / Robin Chen-hsing Tsai

Imagining the great Pacific garbage patch and spectacles of environmental disaster: environmental entanglement and literary engagement in Wu Ming-yi's The man with the compound eyes / Rose Hsui-li Juan

If nature had a voice: a material-oriented environmental reading of The man with the compound eyes / Yalan Chang

Imagining catastrophe: nuclear issues in postwar Taiwan literature / Hueichu Chu

Pre-texts for tree-texts, W.S. Merwin and The trees of Taiwan / Iris Ralph

Revisiting resistance: urban foraging, public markets, and new organic landscape / Serena Shiuhhuah Chou

Animal fiction, avant-garde art, and posthumanist ecoaesthetics.

What's in a plant?: the transcorporeality in yucca invest trading plant / Iping Liang

Becoming-animal: Liu Kexiang's writing apprenticeship on birds / Yu-lin Lee

Aesthetic configurations and qualia in environmental consciousness in contemporary Taiwanese poetry and installation art / Dean A. Brink

Utopia in theatre: Mulian rescues mother earth / Shih-yi Huang.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 3, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4985-3828-2

OCLC:

950459582