LEADER 04150nam 2200565 450 001 9910822972003321 005 20201016000930.0 010 $a1-4985-3828-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000685636 035 $a(EBL)4530159 035 $a(OCoLC)950459582 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001675109 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16484321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001675109 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15018666 035 $a(PQKB)10036272 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16479175 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15018667 035 $a(PQKB)20786661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4530159 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000685636 100 $a20160607h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEcocriticism in Taiwan $eidentity, environment, and the arts /$fedited by Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 225 1 $aEcocritical theory and practice 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4985-3827-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Island identities, eco-postcolonial historiography, and alter(native) strategies. Going back into a future of simplicity: Taiwan aborigines' sustainable utilization of natural resources / Ming-tu Yang -- (W)ri(gh)ting climate change in Neqou Soqluman's work / Hsinya Huang -- Taiwan is a whale: the emerging oneness of dark blue and human identity in Chia-hsiang Wang's historical fiction / Shu-fen Tsai -- Taiwanese mountain and river literature from a postcolonial perspective / Peter I-min Huang -- Agrarian origin stories, national imaginaries, and the ironies of modern environmentalism: on Chi-po Lin' Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above / Hannes Bergthaller -- Slow violence, creative activism, and environmental movements. Toxic objects, slow violence, and the ethics of trans-corporeality in Chi Wen-chang's The poisoned sky / Robin Chen-hsing Tsai -- Imagining the great Pacific garbage patch and spectacles of environmental disaster: environmental entanglement and literary engagement in Wu Ming-yi's The man with the compound eyes / Rose Hsui-li Juan -- If nature had a voice: a material-oriented environmental reading of The man with the compound eyes / Yalan Chang -- Imagining catastrophe: nuclear issues in postwar Taiwan literature / Hueichu Chu -- Pre-texts for tree-texts, W.S. Merwin and The trees of Taiwan / Iris Ralph -- Revisiting resistance: urban foraging, public markets, and new organic landscape / Serena Shiuhhuah Chou -- Animal fiction, avant-garde art, and posthumanist ecoaesthetics. -- What's in a plant?: the transcorporeality in yucca invest trading plant / Iping Liang -- Becoming-animal: Liu Kexiang's writing apprenticeship on birds / Yu-lin Lee -- Aesthetic configurations and qualia in environmental consciousness in contemporary Taiwanese poetry and installation art / Dean A. Brink -- Utopia in theatre: Mulian rescues mother earth / Shih-yi Huang. 330 $aDespite the vibrant development of the field of ecocriticism on the island of Taiwan, there has, as yet, been no single volume in English dedicated to illustrating Taiwan's important contributions to international ecocriticism, especially the emerging "vernacular" trend in the field that emphasizes the significance of local perspectives and styles, including non-western, aboriginal, and comparative approaches. Ecocriticism in Taiwan provides a model for a more nuanced version of the locale-specific, vernacular thinking about the environment, art, and human identity. 410 0$aEcocritical theory and practice. 606 $aEcocriticism 615 0$aEcocriticism. 676 $a809/.933553 702 $aChang$b Chia-ju 702 $aSlovic$b Scott 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822972003321 996 $aEcocriticism in Taiwan$94004054 997 $aUNINA