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Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santa Ana, Jeffrey.
Other Authors: Amin-Hong, Heidi., Chua, Rina Garcia., Zhou, Xiaojing.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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
  • 1. Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Ecological Ruin, Imperialist Nostalgia, and Indigenous Erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited | Jeffrey Santa Ana
  • 2. Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space | Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
  • 3. Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films | Chitra Sankaran
  • 4. "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
  • 5. Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For | Emily Cheng
  • 6. Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire | Heidi Amin-Hong
  • 7. 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
  • 8. Risk and Resistance at Pōhakuloa | Rebecca H. Hogue
  • 9. "Disentrancing" the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry | Rina Garcia Chua
  • 10. 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
  • 11. Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel | Amy Lee
  • 12. Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha | Emalani Case.
  • 13. 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.

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