Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)

Acknowledgments
Praise for Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1 Ecocriticism: Surveying the Field
	2 Racialized Others: The Ones Left Out
	References
Chapter 2: Prelude: Entering “Nature’s Nation”
	References
Chapter 3: “Naturalizing” Asian Americans: Edith Eaton
	1 Native/Nativism
	2 Native/Nature/Naturalization
	3 Naturalization/Animalization: Pets and Pests
		3.1 Pets and Curiosities
		3.2 Pests: The Yellow Peril
	4 Edith Eaton’s Limited Options
	5 Eaton’s “Fauna”: Resisting Naturalization
	6 Eaton’s “Flora”: Benevolent Naturalization
	7 The Quandary of Racist Animalization
	References
Chapter 4: Thinking (Like a) Gold Mountain: Shawn Wong’s Homebase and Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men
	1 Asian/American Land(scapes)
		1.1 Asian Americans and the American Land: A Fragile Connection
		1.2 Nature and Work: Asian Americans Changing the Face of the Earth
	2 Shawn Wong’s Homebase: Claiming America Through Inlanding17
		2.1 Nature as Metaphorical Trope
		2.2 From Analogy to Human Inlanding
		2.3 “Yellowing” the Landscaped Indian
	3 Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men: Claiming America Through Land Empathy48
		3.1 Land Ethics and Land Empathy
		3.2 Homelands: Homelessness and Belonging
		3.3 Claiming America Through Land Empathy
	4 Agency and Voice: Can (Subaltern) Nature Speak?
	References
Chapter 5: Cultivating the Anti-campo: An Environmental Reading of “Internment Literature”
	1 From Camp to Campo8
	2 From Homo Sacer to Homo Ecologicus
		2.1 Animal Spaces and Environment Shock
		2.2 A Dialogue with the New Environment
			Patterns of Domestication
			From Failure to Adaptation
			From Knowledge to Conservation
	3 The Pastoral and the Sublime: Escapism or Empowerment?
	4 Cultivating the Anti-campo
	References
Chapter 6: Facing the End of Nature: Karen Tei Yamashita and Ruth Ozeki
	1 Ecocriticism and the End of Nature7
	2 Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest: Transnational-Transnatural Post-Pastoralism17
		2.1 Plastic Flesh
		2.2 The Junkyard in the Jungle
		2.3 Transnational-Transnatural Post-Pastoralism
	3 Ruth Ozeki’s Novels: Materiality and Immateriality
		3.1 Meat, Potatoes, and Gyres
		3.2 Time-Space Beings: A Tale for a Globalized World46
		3.3 Buddhism and Quantum Physics: A Tale of the Immaterial World55
	4 The Many Layers of the Ozone Layer, or How to Reconcile the Material and the Immaterial
	References
Chapter 7: Coda: Weedflowers, Gold Mountains, and Murky Globes
	References
Index