03734nam 22006135 450 991048398590332120240724135634.09783030356187303035618310.1007/978-3-030-35618-7(CKB)4100000010118966(MiAaPQ)EBC6028041(DE-He213)978-3-030-35618-7(Perlego)3480316(EXLCZ)99410000001011896620200124d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEcocriticism and Asian American Literature Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes /by Begoña Simal-González1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) illustrationsLiteratures, Cultures, and the Environment,2946-31659783030356170 3030356175 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prelude Entering Nature's Nation -- Chapter 3: "Naturalizing" Asian Americans: Edith Eaton -- Chapter 4: Thinking (Like a) Gold Mountain: Maxine Hong Kingston and Shawn Wong -- Chapter 5: Cultivating the Anti-Campo: An Environmental Reading of "Internment Literature" -- Chapter 6: Facing the End of Nature: Karen Tei Yamashita and Ruth Ozeki -- Chapter 7: Coda: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes. .Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian American writing, from Eaton's Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) to Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013), through an ecocritical lens. The volume explores the most relevant landmarks in Asian American literature: the first-contact narratives written by Bulosan, Kingston, Mukherjee and Jen; the controversial texts published by Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton) at the time of the Yellow Peril; the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrated by Wong's Homebase and Kingston's China Men; old and recent examples of "internment literature" dealing with the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII (Sone, Houston, Miyake, Kadohata); and the new trends in Asian American literature since the 1990s, exemplified by Yamashita's and Ozeki's novels, which explore the challenges of our transnational, transnatural era. Begoña Simal-González's ecocritical readings of these texts provide crucial interdisciplinary insights, addressing and analyzing important narratives within Asian American culture and literature. .Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,2946-3165Oriental literatureLiteraturePhilosophyCommunication in the environmental sciencesAsian LiteratureLiterary TheoryEnvironmental CommunicationOriental literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Communication in the environmental sciences.Asian Literature.Literary Theory.Environmental Communication.810.9895810.9895073Simal-González Begoñaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut879807MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483985903321Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature2268923UNINA