Posthuman Southeast Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries
Redaktion: Ribó, Ignasi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigenous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativity of contemporary literature, art, music, drama, film, and other media. This book expands and enriches Southeast Asian ecocritical scholarship by incorporating posthumanist and new materialist perspectives. Across twelve chapters, this volume explicitly engages with Southeast Asian texts, cultural practices, and environmental issues from the broadly conceived theoretical framework of posthuman ecocriticism. They provide a uniquely inflected perspective on the literary, multimedia, and artistic dimensions of contemporary nature-cultures in Southeast Asia, as part of a concerted effort to disclose the complex entanglements of humans and nonhumans across the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666933031
• Artikelnr.: 74939276

Autorenporträt

Ignasi Ribó is associate professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Posthuman Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia Ignasi Ribó
Chapter 1: Cultivating Botanical Wisdom: Durian Narratives and the Plant
Posthumanities John Charles Ryan
Chapter 2: A Phyto-Investigation of Banana and Papaya in Contemporary
Indonesian Poems Henrikus Joko Yulianto
Chapter 3: "Not Becoming-Human, What Am I-Becoming, O Tree?": On Nguy?n
Bình Phuong's Posthuman Poetics Tran Ngoc Hieu and Tran Hoang Kieu Trang
Chapter 4: Formosan Multispecies Ethnographies: Life Accounts of Rock
Monkeys in Robert Swinhoe Li-Ru Lu
Chapter 5: Agent Orange and the Exposed Bodies of Vietnam: Trans-Corporeal
Abjection and Embodied Difference Reshma Sanil and Rashmi Gaur
Chapter 6: Transcending the Anthropocene: Ecology and the Posthuman in
Southeast Asian Fictions Paloma Chaterji
Chapter 7: Vulnerability and Precarity in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup
Girl: A Posthumanist Reading Soorya Alex
Chapter 8: The Environment as Kapwa: Decentering the Self Through the
Exploration of Human and More-than-human Entanglements in Hiligaynon
Ecopoetry Maria Anjelica Wong and Antonio D. Salazar Jr.
Chapter 9: Theatre of Animals and Gods: Zoo Animals Perform to Educate
Catherine Diamond
Chapter 10: Posthuman Ecoscapes: Synthetic Materiality and Distributed
Cognition in Southeast Asian Animation Nathan Snow
Chapter 11: Post-Marxism and the Pluriverse: Antagonism and Heterogeneity
in More-than-human Worlds Min Seong Kim
Index
About the Contributors