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Title Empire and environment : ecological ruin in the Transpacific / edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Out of the ruins / Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Introduction: Confronting ecological ruination in the transpacific / Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing -- Part I. (Framing) postcolonial ecocritical approaches to the Asia-Pacific -- Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Transpacific queer ecologies: ecological ruin, imperialist nostalgia, and indigenous erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited / Jeffrey Santa Ana -- Cycas wadei and enduring white space / Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez -- Rust and recovery: a study of South Indian goddess films / Chitra Sankaran -- "If we return we will learn": empire, poetry, and biocultural knowledge in Papua New Guinea / John Charles Ryan -- Part II. Militarized Environments -- "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Emily Cheng -- Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Heidi Amin-Hong -- Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / Zhou Xiaojing -- Part III. Decolonizing the transpacific: settler colonialism and indigenous resistance -- "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / Rebecca H. Hogue -- "Disentrancing" the rot of colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry / Rina Garcia Chua -- Representing postcolonial water environments in contemporary Taiwanese literature / Ti-Han Chang -- Part IV. Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities -- "Age of Plastic" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Climate justice in the transpacific novel / Amy Lee -- Rising like waves: drowning settler colonial rhetoric with Aloha / Emalani Case -- Imperial debris, vibrant matter: plastic in the hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli artists / Chad Shomura -- Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" / Priscilla Wald -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject 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.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
Militarism. (OCoLC)fst01020839
Pacific Area. (OCoLC)fst01243504
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Genre/Form Literary criticism. (OCoLC)fst01986215
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Added Author Santa Ana, Jeffrey, 1965- editor.
Amin-Hong, Heidi, 1990- editor.
Chua, Rina Garcia, editor.
Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Empire and environment Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022] 9780472074938 (DLC) 2022025002
ISBN 9780472902996 (electronic book other)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.11580516 doi
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