Asian American Literature and the Environment - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138547840 ISBN 13 : 9781138547841

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers' positions on topics of major concern today: environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity. Represented authors include Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruth Ozeki, Ha Jin, Fae Myenne Ng, Le Ly Hayslip, Lan Cao, Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Milton Murayama, Don Lee, and Hisaye Yamamoto. These writers provide a range of perspectives on the historical, social, psychological, economic, philosophical, and aesthetic responses of Asian Americans to the environment conceived in relation to labor, racism, immigration, domesticity, global capitalism, relocation, pollution, violence, and religion. Contributors apply a diversity of critical frameworks, including critical 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 neglected terrain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138547840
• ISBN 13: 9781138547841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Fitzsimmons Lorna, Chae Youngsuk, Adams Bella
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