Ecocriticism and Asian American literature [[electronic resource] ] : gold mountains, weedflowers and murky globes / / by Begoña Simal-González

• Autore: Simal-González Begoña
• 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
• Soggetto topico: Oriental literature; Literature—Philosophy; Communication; 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: 3-030-35618-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483985903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment