Asian American Literature and the Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fitzsimmons, Lorna; Adams, Bella; Chae, Youngsuk

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies. Contributors apply a diversity of critical frameworks, including radical race studies, counter-memory studies, ecofeminism, and geomantic criticism. The book presents a compelling and timely 'green' perspective through which to understand key works of Asian American literature and leads the field of ecocriticism into previously neglected terrain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134676781
• Artikelnr.: 41835123

Autorenporträt

Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Humanities at California State University Dominguez Hills, USA. Youngsuk Chae is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA. Bella Adams is Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature John Gamber Part 1
: The Environment and Labor 1. Environmental Narratives of American
Identity: Landscape and Belonging in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and
Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body Andrea Aebersold 2. Fae
Myenne Ng's San Francisco Chinatown as a Social Space of Legal
Discrimination Wenying Xu 3. "Delving and Carving Rude Nature": An
Ecocritical Reading of Don Lee's Wrack and Ruin Bella Adams Part 2: The
Environment and Violence 4. Contested "Frontier" and "Pioneers" in Writings
about Japanese American Concentration Camps Zhou Xiaojing 5. Tilling the
Soil in the Killing Fields: Cambodian American War Memoirs Helena Grice 6.
Ecological Imaginations, the Vietnam War, and Vietnamese American
Literature Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 7. "Guns, Race, Meat, and Manifest
Destiny": Environmental Neocolonialism and Ecofeminism in Ruth Ozeki's My
Year of Meats Youngsuk Chae Part 3: The Environment and Philosophy 8.
Hisaye Yamamoto as Radical Agrarian Sarah D. Wald 9. A Geomantic Reading of
Asian Diasporic Literature Stephen L. Field 10. Environment for "A Free
Life" King-Kok Cheung Afterword David Eng