Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Slovic, Scott, 1960-
• Chang, Chia-ju

Description

xxii, 215 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Ecocritical theory and practice

Uniform Title

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Subjects

• Nature in literature
• Chinese literature > Taiwan > History and criticism
• Environmentalism > Taiwan
• Ecocriticism > Taiwan
• Environmentalism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-10607

ISBN

• 9781498538275
• 1498538274

LCCN

2016013597

OCLC

946160824

Title

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

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ecocritical theory and practice

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Slovic, Scott, 1960- editor.

Chang, Chia-ju, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ecocriticism in Taiwan Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016 9781498538282 (DLC) 2016027405

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10607