East Asian Ecocriticisms A Critical Reader

by Estok, Simon C.; Kim, Won-Chung

• ISBN13: 9781137274311
• ISBN10: 113727431X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations.

Author Biography

Simon Estok is Associate Professor and Junior Fellow (2011-14) in the Department of English Literature at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea and the author of Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia.Won-Chung Kim is Professor of English Literature at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea and has published and translated extensively on ecopoetry. Kim is a founding member and past-president of ASLE-Korea.

Table of Contents

Preface; Won-Chung Kim
1. Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms; Simon C. Estok
2. Towards a Language of Life: Ecological Identity in the Work of Morisaki Kazue; Yuki Masami
3. First There Were Stories: Ishimure Michiko's Narratives of Resistance and Reconciliation; Bruce Allen
4. A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of 'Matsuri [Festival]' by Hiromi Ito; Keitaro Morita
5. Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature; Won-Chung Kim
6. The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology: (Re)Configuring Korean Environmental Discourse and Ecocriticism; Dooho Shin
7. Divided Circumstances of Korea and the Imagination of the Border; Chan Je Wu
8. Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to it in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale and the poetry of Sheng Wu; Peter I-min Huang
9. 'Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time: Wu Mingyi's Nature Writing and the Aesthetics of Change; Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
10. 'Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism; Kathryn Yalan Chang
11. 'Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism; Yang Jincai
12. 'Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture: Reading Chen Yingsong's Shennongjia Stories; Lily Chen Hong
13. 'On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation; Cheng Xiangzhan
14. 'Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures; Karen Thornber