Questioning borders : ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan / Robin Visser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Visser, Robin, 1962- author.

Series:

Global Chinese Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries in literature.

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Ecocriticism in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Indigenous authors--China.

Indigenous authors.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55329-3

OCLC:

1389613105