Empire and environment : ecological ruin in the Transpacific /
Empire and environment : ecological ruin in the Transpacific /
edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Out of the ruins / Introduction: Confronting ecological ruination in the transpacific / Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) / Transpacific queer ecologies: ecological ruin, imperialist nostalgia, and Indigenous erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited / Cycas wadei and enduring white space / Rust and recovery: a study of South Indian goddess films / "If we return we will learn": empire, poetry, and biocultural knowledge in Papua New Guinea / "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / "Disentrancing" the rot of colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry / Representing postcolonial water environments in contemporary Taiwanese literature / "Age of Plastic" (poem) / Climate justice in the transpacific novel / Rising like waves: drowning settler colonial rhetoric with Aloha / -- Emalani Case -- Imperial debris, vibrant matter: plastic in the hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli artists / Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" / Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing -- Craig Santos Perez -- Jeffrey Santa Ana -- Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez -- Chitra Sankaran -- John Charles Ryan -- Craig Santos Perez -- Emily Cheng -- Heidi Amin-Hong -- Zhou Xiaojing -- Craig Santos Perez -- Rebecca H. Hogue -- Rina Garcia Chua -- Ti-Han Chang -- Craig Santos Perez -- Amy Lee -- Chad Shomura -- Priscilla Wald.
"Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen body chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald"--
9780472902996
2022025003
Pacific Island literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN849 / .E475 2022
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Out of the ruins / Introduction: Confronting ecological ruination in the transpacific / Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) / Transpacific queer ecologies: ecological ruin, imperialist nostalgia, and Indigenous erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited / Cycas wadei and enduring white space / Rust and recovery: a study of South Indian goddess films / "If we return we will learn": empire, poetry, and biocultural knowledge in Papua New Guinea / "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / "Disentrancing" the rot of colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry / Representing postcolonial water environments in contemporary Taiwanese literature / "Age of Plastic" (poem) / Climate justice in the transpacific novel / Rising like waves: drowning settler colonial rhetoric with Aloha / -- Emalani Case -- Imperial debris, vibrant matter: plastic in the hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli artists / Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" / Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing -- Craig Santos Perez -- Jeffrey Santa Ana -- Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez -- Chitra Sankaran -- John Charles Ryan -- Craig Santos Perez -- Emily Cheng -- Heidi Amin-Hong -- Zhou Xiaojing -- Craig Santos Perez -- Rebecca H. Hogue -- Rina Garcia Chua -- Ti-Han Chang -- Craig Santos Perez -- Amy Lee -- Chad Shomura -- Priscilla Wald.
"Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen body chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald"--
9780472902996
2022025003
Pacific Island literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN849 / .E475 2022