Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction - Sankaran, Chitra
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"This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, both in nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. The main theoretical framework is ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories. Chitra Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women's relationships to non/human worlds"--…mehr

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"This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, both in nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. The main theoretical framework is ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories. Chitra Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women's relationships to non/human worlds"--
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Autorenporträt
Chitra Sankaran (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, NUS. Her research interests include South and Southeast Asian fiction, feminist theory and ecocriticism. In 2012, she published History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction with SUNY Press. Her other publications include monographs, edited volumes on Asian Literatures, chapters in books and research articles in IRJs including Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ARIEL, Theatre Research International, Journal of South Asian Literature, Australian Feminist Studies and Critical Asian Studies. She is an invited contributor to the Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHNE) series. She is currently working on ecofeminism in South Asian and Southeast Asian fictions.