Ecocriticism in Taiwan : identity, environment, and the arts / edited by Scott Slovic and Chia-ju Chang.

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

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