Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction / Chitra Sankaran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chitra Sankaran, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecofiction--History and criticism.

Ecofiction.

South Asian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

South Asian fiction.

Southeast Asian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Southeast Asian fiction.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Summary:

In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions.This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women's relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Contents:

Colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial ecologies

Women, animals, and animality

Feminized rivers, history, and enchantment

Women, pasts, and the apocalypse

The sacred, the subalterns, women, and literary legacies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sankaran, Chitra Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

ISBN:

9780820360898