Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes
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Beschreibung
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 ECOCRITICISM: SURVEYING THE FIELD
1.2 RACIALIZED OTHERS: THE ONES LEFT OUT
Chapter 2: PRELUDE - entering nature's nation 29
CHAPTER 3: "Naturalizing" Asian Americans: Edith Eaton 47
3.1. Native / Nativism
3.2. Native / Nature / Naturalization
3.3. Naturalization / Animalization: Pets and Pests
3.3.1. Pets and curiosities
3.3.2. Pests: The Yellow Peril
3.4. Edith Eaton's Limited Options
3.5. Eaton's "Fauna": Resisting Naturalization
3.6. Eaton's "Flora": Benevolent Naturalization
3.7. The Quandary of Racist Animalization
CHAPTER 4: Thinking (like a) Gold Mountain: Maxine Hong Kingston and Shawn Wong 93
4.1. Asian/American Land(scapes)
4.1.1. Asian Americans and the American Land: A Fragile Connection
4.1.2. Nature and Work: Asian Americans Changing the face of the Earth
4.2. Shawn Wong's Homebase: Claiming America through Inlanding
4.2.1. NATURE AS METAPHORICAL TROPE
4.2.2. FROM ANALOGY TO HUMAN INLANDING
4.2.3. "YELLOWING" THE LANDSCAPED INDIAN
4.3. Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men: Claiming America through Land Empathy
4.3.1. LAND ETHICS AND LAND EMPATHY
4.3.2. HOMELANDS: HOMELESSNESS AND BELONGING
4.3.3. CLAIMING AMERICA THROUGH LAND EMPATHY
4.4. AGENCY AND VOICE: CAN (SUBALTERN) NATURE SPEAK?
CHAPTER 5: Cultivating the Anti-Campo: AN ENVIRONMENTAL READING OF "Internment Literature" 155
5.1- FROM CAMP TO CAMPO
5.2- FROM HOMO SACER TO HOMO ECOLOGICUS
5.2.1. ANIMAL SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SHOCK
5.2.2. A DIALOGUE WITH THE NEW ENVIRONMENT
5.3. THE PASTORAL AND THE SUBLIME: ESCAPISM OR EMPOWERMENT?
5.4. CULTIVATING THE ANTICAMPO
CHAPTER 6: Facing the End of Nature: Karen Tei Yamashita and Ruth Ozeki 217
6.1. ECOCRITICISM AND THE END OF NATURE
6.2. KAREN TEI yamashita'S THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST: Transnational-Transnatural POST-PastoralISM
6.2.1. PLASTIC FLESH
6.2.2. THE JUNKYARD IN THE JUNGLE
6.2.3. TRANSNATIONAL-TRANSNATURAL POST-PASTORALISM
6.3. RUTH OZEKI'S NOVELS: MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY
6.3.1. MEAT, POTATOES AND GYRES
6.3.2. Time-SPACE Beings: A Tale for A Globalized World
6.3.2. BUDDHISM AND QUANTUM PHYSICS: a tale of the invisible world
6.4. THE MANY LAYERS OF THE OZONE LAYER, OR HOW TO RECONCILE THE MATERIAL AND THE IMMATERIAL
Chapter 7: CODA: GOLD MOUNTAINS, WEEDFLOWERS AND MURKY GLOBES 285
Eigenschaften
Breite: | 156 |
Gewicht: | 500 g |
Höhe: | 212 |
Länge: | 22 |
Seiten: | 273 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | Begoña Simal-González |