East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Partial Views....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Toward a Language of Life....Pages 17-33
First There Were Stories....Pages 35-57
A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of “Matsuri [Festival]“ by Hiromi Ito....Pages 59-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature....Pages 77-90
The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology....Pages 91-110
Korea’s Divided Circumstances and the Imagination of the Border....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to It in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale and in Sheng Wu’s Poetry....Pages 125-143
Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time....Pages 145-163
Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism....Pages 165-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism....Pages 187-204
Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture....Pages 205-220
On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation....Pages 221-236
Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures....Pages 237-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-279