A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader : Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities

• Autore: Yeow Agnes S. K
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.933553
• Altri autori: ThamWai Liang
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Permissions -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Biosemiotic Turn and Malaysian Ecocriticism -- Overview: A View of Two Mangroves -- Ecological Readings of Malaysian Literature -- The Myth of a Colonial Eden and the Postcolonial Dilemma -- Defining the Biosemiotic Turn -- Reconsidering Muhammad Haji Salleh and K.S. Maniam -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Cultivating Multispecies Worlds -- Petikan dari halaman: An Ecocritical Reading of Lat's Graphic Novels and the Malay Home Garden -- Introduction -- Semangat and the Agency of Plants -- Introducing the Halaman -- Two Kampung Boys and Several Aesthetic Considerations -- Three Readings of the Halaman -- As an Ecological System -- As a Genetic Resource and Record -- As a Cultural Meeting Point -- Conclusion: The Halaman as a Model Forward? -- Appendix -- References -- On Love, Keepers and Confiscated Orang-utans -- On Love, Keepers and Confiscated Orang-utans -- K. S. Maniam's Bestiary: Reading Animality and Identity in Selected Stories -- Introduction -- The Animal Mask -- The Diasporic Subject as 'Becoming-Animal' -- Conclusion -- References -- Mediating Magical Landscapes -- Imperial Enclosure, Literary Resistance: The Case of Ishak Haji Muhammad's Putera Gunung Tahan (1938) -- Introduction -- The Question of Generic Categorisation -- The Text Itself -- Exploitation and Protection: The Discourses of Enclosure and Conservation -- Land and Subjectification -- Ishak's Anti-Enclosure Politics -- Problematising Protection -- Paternalism -- An Uneasy Coexistence: The Colonial, the Supernatural and the Theological -- Conclusion -- References -- Other-Than-Human: Thinking Like the Forest Gardens -- Exorcise: Separation of Humans and Spirits -- Haunted Hills: Encountering the Deities -- Remember Me: Ancestral Spirits. ; Possessing Nothing: Animistic Beings -- Conclusion -- References -- An Enchanted Landscape: Rethinking 'Irrational Ideas' of Human Relations to Nature -- Introduction -- Towards an Ecological Society -- The Seng-oi -- Land and Social Relations -- Constructing the Relationship with Land -- The Pangkal Ti' -- The Keramat -- Moving Beyond Land -- Spirit and Soul -- The Story of the Eagle Gunig -- An Irrational Discourse on Nature? -- From Text to Context: The Implications for Indigenous Rights -- Conclusion -- References -- Encountering Other Ecologies -- Trashy Tales and Tales of Trash (2016): The Making of Waste in Contemporary Malaysian Short Stories -- Introduction: Imposing Invisibility Upon Trash -- The Malaysian Cultural Context -- Trash and Space in "and the Heavens Your Canopy" -- Trash and Time in "Mrs Chandra's War Against Dust" -- Trash, Gender and Class in "Baby's Breath" -- Conclusion: The Systemic Making of Trash -- References -- The Other Malay: Nature and Subversive Sexualities in Dina Zaman's King of the Sea (2012) -- Introduction -- Adopting an Ecocritical Lens -- Writing Subversion and Re-visioning Malay Identity -- Interrogating Malay Sexuality -- Transgressive Female Desire in 'The Rainstorm' -- Sexual Subversion in 'Man of the Jungle' -- Sexualised Transformative Myths in 'Alia' -- Conclusion -- References -- Defending the Tanah Air -- An Excerpt from Memoirs of a Malaysian Eco-Activist (2017) -- Introduction: Editor's Note by Wai Liang Tham -- Excerpts -- Environmental Journey: How the Environmental Protection Society of Malaysia (EPSM) Was Formed -- Tackling Local Environmental Issues -- Expanding Our Scope to Address Nationwide Issues -- Centre for Environment, Technology and Development, Malaysia: A Different Approach -- Working with the Malaysian Government: Questioning Authority and Norms -- Operation Lalang. ; Successes, Failures and Lessons Learnt -- Passing Seventy: Reflections and Lessons Learnt -- References -- The Eco-Hero in Malaysian Novels: From Solitary Figures to Group Solidarity -- Introduction: Concept of a Hero -- The Eco-Hero -- Textual Analysis -- Drive, Success and Failure -- Contextualising the Eco-Hero -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader
• ISBN: 981-9994-66-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838270403321
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