Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Liang, Iping

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-politics in the historical context of the vegetal materialist condition of the island. Intersecting the poetics and politics of plant narratives, it presents the multispecies plantscapes of the island. The first of its kind, the collection launches the historical and localized critical plant studies in Taiwan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216338857
• Artikelnr.: 74839273

Autorenporträt

Iping Liang is Distinguished Professor of English and American studies in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Greedflation and Sugarcane Landscaping in Taiwan: A
Transcultural Reading of Lord of Formosa by Joyce Bergvelt
- Theodoor A.M. Richard
Chapter 2: Empire's Nature: Economics, Ecology, and Formosan Tea in
Nineteenth-Century Western Travelers' Natural Histories
- Li-Ru Lu
Chapter 3: Oriental Beauty: The Tea Plantations and Global Tea Trade in
19th-century Taiwan
- Iping Liang
Chapter 4: From Resonance to Solastalgia: Tea Poems of Taiwan, ca.
1820-1920
- Stephen Roddy
Chapter 5: Brothers Locked in Strife: A Molecular Reading of Blood Camphor
- Ya-feng Wu
Chapter 6: Beyond Cold War Afforestation: Trans-scalar Imaginary of
Casuarinas
- Weibon Wu
Chapter 7: Mangrove Taiwan: A Birdman's View of an Island Environmental
Identity
- Rose Hsiu-li Juan
Chapter 8: Politics of Femininity, Politics of Plants: The Roof Garden in
Zhu Tianwen's "Fin De Siècle Splendor"
- Pei-Wen Clio Kao
Chapter 9: "My head like a mushroom below": Chen Kehua's Vegetal Gothic and
the Anthropocene
- Li-hsin Hsu
Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Commons: An Ambient Poetics in Jessica J. Lee's
Two Trees Make a Forest
- Kathryn Yalan Chang
Chapter 11: The Cultural Narrative of Tayal "Millet Ark"
- Yih-Ren Lin, Pagung Tomi, Hsinya Huang, Chia-Hua Lin and Ysanne Chen
Chapter 12: The Call of the Hyperobjects: Plants as Zones of Aesthetic
Causality in Tao Lin's Taipei
- Chingshun J. Sheu
Index
About the Contributors