Environment and Narrative in Vietnam

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
	1 Environmental Crises and Cultures in Vietnam
	2 Narrative and the Environmental Humanities
	3 The Environmental Humanities in Vietnam
	4 Environmental Narrative Across Disciplines
	5 Future Directions: Vietnam, the World, and the Anthropocene
	References
Part I: Theoretical Foundations
	Protected Area Narratives in Vietnam: An Anthropological and Mesological Approach
		1 Introduction
		2 Scientific Narratives About a Diversity of Worlds
		3 The Ontological Foundations of Nature Narratives
		4 Conclusion
		References
Part II: Indigenous and Spiritual Narratives of the Environment
	Legends of Forest Spirits in the Central Vietnamese Highlands
		1 Introduction
		2 The Sacred Forest in the Indigenous Cultures of the Highlands
		3 Narratives About Forest Yang and Forest Malai
		4 A Metaphysical Approach to Nature
		5 Forest Spirit Stories in Contemporary Vietnamese Media
		6 Conclusion
		Appendix: News Reports About Forest Spirits
		References
	Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam
		1 Introduction
		2 Geographic, Economic, and Historical Background
		3 Ecological Perceptions, Beliefs, Rituals, and Natural Resources Management
		4 Reconstructing the Meaning of Tư Mã Hai Đào and Mount Pha Dùa in Tai Literature
		5 Tutelary Deity Worship, Narratives, and the Environment
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Animal Mercy Release, Environmental Conservation, and the Media in Vietnam
		1 Introduction
		2 Summary of Data Collection and Analysis
		3 A Brief Overview of Animal Mercy Release in Contemporary Vietnam
		4 Narratives About Animal Mercy Release in Contemporary Vietnamese Media
		5 Mercy Release and Environmental Conservation
		6 Cultural and Ethics Narratives
		7 Intermingling of Values and Ethics from Media Narratives of Mercy Release
		8 Conclusions
		References
Part III: War Narratives and the Environment
	Narratives of the Natural World in Vietnamese Postwar Movies (1986–2020)
		1 Introduction: Vietnamese War Movies and Grand Narratives of the Natural World
		2 Ecophobia and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
		3 Nature as Aggressor and Victim
		4 Ecological Aesthetics: Beyond Romance and Epic
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Ecopedagogy, War Memories, and Sensory Experiences of Nature in Contemporary Vietnamese Children’s Literature
		1 Ecocriticism and Vietnamese Literature
		2 Children’s Literature in the Socio-political Context of Vietnam
		3 Homeland and War Memory
		4 Coming of Age in the Jungle
		5 Sensory Experiences
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Đı̉nh Q. Lê’s The Pure Land and Ecological Phantoms: Levitating Sarcophagi, Submerged Spirits
		1 Introduction
		2 Đı̉nh Q. Lê’s Pure Land Installation
		3 Nature’s Fate: Environmental Conflagration and Photographic Ghosts
		4 Buddhist Cosmology and Vietnamese Ancestral Devotion
		References
Part IV: Communism, Global Markets, and the Environment
	Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment
		References
	Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands
		1 Coffee and the Question of Sustainability
		2 Ecological Reality and Environmental Imagination in the Central Highlands
		3 Coffee Sustainability and Emerging Environmental Movements
		4 Ecologies of Vietnamese Coffee
		5 Conclusion
		References
Part V: Environmental Literature in Vietnam
	Environmental Travel Narratives in the Magazine Nam Phong
		1 Nam Phong: A Focus of Cultural and Intellectual Life
		2 Nature, Serenity, and Spirituality
		3 The Wasteland of Wild Nature
		4 Escape from the City
		5 The Economic Uses of Nature
		6 Nature, Colonialism, and the Vietnamese Nation
		7 The Modernization of Travel Narrative
		References
	Gender and Environment in Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s Narratives
		1 Introduction
		2 Humans’ Tragic Destiny: Endurance and Resignation as Female Virtues
		3 Looking at Animals: Nature’s Resilience in a Broken Human World
		4 Unhappy Endings: The Degradation of Nature and the Oppression of Women
		5 Conclusion
		References
	When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà’s Phố vẫn gió
		1 Place and Identity Formation
		2 Residence and Social Status in Phố vẫn gió
		3 Class Identity and Conflict in Lê’s Urban Space
		4 Privatization and the Creation of Meaning
		References
	Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction
		1 Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Vietnamese Environmental Literature
		2 Trần Duy Phiên and Vietnamese Ecofiction
		3 The Politics of Vietnamese Ecofiction
		4 Trần Duy Phiên’s Environmental Fiction and the Resistance to Globalization
		References
Index