This book offers a timely exploration of the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism and gives prominence to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors emphasize the transnational flows between Southeast Asian countries and Australia, England, Taiwan (Formosa), and the United States.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Southeast Asian Ecocriticism
John Charles Ryan
Chapter 2 Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of Thailand
Ignasi Ribó
Chapter 3 Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and Prose
Jeffrey Santa Ana
Chapter 4 Imaging Indigenous Relationships With Nature: The Case of Igorot Music Videos
Jason Paolo R. Telles
Chapter 5 Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis's Novel Fish-Hair Woman
Chitra Sankaran
Chapter 6 Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of "Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham" from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart)
Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng
Chapter 7 Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat's Poetry
Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon
Chapter 8 From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of Myanmar
John Charles Ryan
Chapter 9 Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Pas
