Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature : Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes / / by Begoña Simal-González
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| Autore: |
Simal-González Begoña
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| Titolo: |
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature : Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes / / by Begoña Simal-González
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 810.9895 |
| 810.9895073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Oriental literature |
| Literature - Philosophy | |
| Communication in the environmental sciences | |
| Asian Literature | |
| Literary Theory | |
| Environmental Communication | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature |
| ISBN: | 9783030356187 |
| 3030356183 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483985903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment, . 2946-3165