Ecocriticism in Taiwan : identity, environment, and the arts /

Ecocriticism in Taiwan : identity, environment, and the arts / edited by Scott Slovic and Chia-ju Chang. - Lanham : Lexington Books, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Ecocritical theory and practice .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Island identities, eco-postcolonial historiography, and alter(native) strategies. Going back into a future of simplicity: Taiwan aborigines' sustainable utilization of natural resources / (W)ri(gh)ting climate change in Neqou Soqluman's work / Taiwan is a whale: the emerging oneness of dark blue and human identity in Chia-hsiang Wang's historical fiction / Taiwanese mountain and river literature from a postcolonial perspective / Agrarian origin stories, national imaginaries, and the ironies of modern environmentalism: on Chi-po Lin' Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above / 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 / 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 / If nature had a voice: a material-oriented environmental reading of The man with the compound eyes / Imagining catastrophe: nuclear issues in postwar Taiwan literature / Pre-texts for tree-texts, W.S. Merwin and The trees of Taiwan / Revisiting resistance: urban foraging, public markets, and new organic landscape / Animal fiction, avant-garde art, and posthumanist ecoaesthetics. -- What's in a plant?: the transcorporeality in yucca invest trading plant / Becoming-animal: Liu Kexiang's writing apprenticeship on birds / Aesthetic configurations and qualia in environmental consciousness in contemporary Taiwanese poetry and installation art / Utopia in theatre: Mulian rescues mother earth / Ming-tu Yang -- Hsinya Huang -- Shu-fen Tsai -- Peter I-min Huang -- Hannes Bergthaller -- Robin Chen-hsing Tsai -- Rose Hsui-li Juan -- Yalan Chang -- Hueichu Chu -- Iris Ralph -- Serena Shiuhhuah Chou -- Iping Liang -- Yu-lin Lee -- Dean A. Brink -- Shih-yi Huang.



9781498538282

2016027405


Ecocriticism--Taiwan.
Chinese literature--History and criticism.--Taiwan
Environmentalism in literature.
Nature in literature.
Environmentalism--Taiwan.


Electronic Books.

PN98 / .E263 2016