Empire and Environment [electronic book] : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific / edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua and Zhou Xiaojing.
Contributor(s): Santa Ana, Jeffrey [editor]
| Amin-Hong, Heidi [editor] | Chua, Rina Garcia [editor] | Zhou, Xiaojing.
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022Description: online resource (323 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780472074938 (hardback); 9780472054930 (paperback); 9780472902996 (e-BooK).Subject(s): Pacific Island literature -- History and criticism | American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism | Ecocriticism in literature | Environmentalism in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Decolonization in literature | poetics gender and sexuality botany environmental humanities Southeast Asia extinction militarism ocean studies empire race and racialization postcolonialism climate change poetry Anthropocene global capitalism visual studies the Americas extraction Indigenous people and indigeneity Pacific Islanders environment Asia Colonialism migration Pacific Ocean Asian AmericansDDC classification: 809.933582 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 809.933582 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen body chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena GÓmez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Framing) Postcolonial ecocritical approaches to the Asia-Pacific -- Militarized environments -- Decolonizing the transpacific: settler colonialism and indigenous resistance -- Climate justice and ecological futurities.
<div><i>Empire and Environment</i> argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald.</div>
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (ix)
- Foreword: Out of the Ruins (xiii)
- Introduction: Confronting Ecological Ruination in the Transpacific (1)
- Part I (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific
- Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) (31)
- 1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Ecological Ruin, Imperialist Nostalgia, and Indigenous Erasure in Han Ong's Hie Disinherited (35)
- 2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space (62)
- 3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films (80)
- 4 "If We Return We Will Learn": Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New Guinea (94)
- Part II Militarized Environments
- "Nuclear Family" (poem) (111)
- 5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For (115)
- 6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire (129)
- 7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Ecopoetry against Colonial Ruination (146)
- Part III Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance
- "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) (173)
- 8 Risk and Resistance at Pohakuloa (179)
- 9 "Disentrancing" the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry (192)
- 10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature (207)
- Part IV Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities
- "Age of Plastic" (poem) (227)
- 11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel (229)
- 12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha (244)
- 13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli Artists (258)
- Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" (277)
- Contributors (285)
- Index (291)