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Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

Chitra Sankaran

Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820360898

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Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

Chitra Sankaran

Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780820368320

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Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature

Douglas A. Vakoch

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000634402

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature by Douglas A. Vakoch Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature. Covering the main theoretical approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes: • Examination of ecofeminism through the literatures of a diverse sampling of languages, including Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish; native speakers of Tamil, Vietnamese, Turkish, Slovene, and Icelandic. • Analysis of core issues and topics, offering innovative approaches to interpreting literature, including: activism, animal studies, cultural studies, disability, gender essentialism, hegemonic masculinity, intersectionality, material ecocriticism, postcolonialism, posthumanism, postmodernism, race, and sentimental ecology. • Surveys key periods and genres of ecofeminism and literary criticism, including chapters on Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literatures, children and young adult literature, mystery, and detective fictions, including interconnected genres of climate fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, and distinctive perspectives provided by travel writing, autobiography, and poetry. This collection explores how each of ecofeminism’s core concerns can foster a more emancipatory literary theory and criticism, now and in the future. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, gender studies, and the environmental humanities.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

Adeline Johns-Putra,Kelly Sultzbach

Author : Adeline Johns-Putra,Kelly Sultzbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316512166

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate by Adeline Johns-Putra,Kelly Sultzbach Pdf

This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.

Storied Deserts

Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan

Author : Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040044681

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Storied Deserts by Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan Pdf

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world’s desert places and the very concept of "the desert" itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship. Through their diverse range of perspectives, contributors show how arid lands have been and can be understood as sites of narrative production, places where signs and imaginaries are born from the materialities of space and entanglement. In this way, this volume highlights how the storied matter of the Earth’s deserts informs lived realities, environmental histories, cinematic and literary imaginaries, political conflicts, and even intellectual categories such as "the human" and "the elemental". Ultimately, this book shows that reimagining desert places can help us to grapple with the epochal challenges of the Anthropocene. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.

Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond

Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan

Author : Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000937336

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Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond by Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan Pdf

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity and re-inhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa and Brazil in all their richness and complexity. Re-imaging the desert figure’s rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision the human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, affect, and gender. Essays also aim to engage in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres that influence the popular conception of these spaces, moving beyond the usual tropes to forge a topographically informed desert identity and posit a ‘natureculture’ ecosystem based on the interpenetration of landscape, culture, and history. This volume includes literary exploration of environmental injustices, analyzing motifs of deforestation, land degradation, falling crop production, toxic man-made chemicals, and extractivist practices linked to various social and economic stressors and gradients in economic and political power. This diverse volume will provide a significant contribution to desert humanities from the Global South, responding to the pressing problems of the Anthropocene and employing place-based ecocritical frameworks that help us imagine a sustainable way of life.

Empire and Environment

Jeffrey Santa Ana,Heidi Amin-Hong,Rina Garcia Chua,Xiaojing Zhou

Author : Jeffrey Santa Ana,Heidi Amin-Hong,Rina Garcia Chua,Xiaojing Zhou
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472902996

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Empire and Environment by Jeffrey Santa Ana,Heidi Amin-Hong,Rina Garcia Chua,Xiaojing Zhou Pdf

Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald.

Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction

Ruvani Ranasinha

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137403056

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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction by Ruvani Ranasinha Pdf

This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.

Women in Southeast Asia

Surajit Kumar Bhagowati

Author : Surajit Kumar Bhagowati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Women
ISBN : 8177083740

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Women in Southeast Asia by Surajit Kumar Bhagowati Pdf

The 11 countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Timor, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei) of Southeast Asia include over 600 million people. Despite great linguistic and cultural diversity, the region is characterized by the relatively favorable position of women in comparison with neighboring East Asia or South Asia. The position of women in Southeast Asia is often cited as evidence that women are not universally subjugated to men. In the context of women's status, this book examines the social system in Southeast Asia during the pre-colonial, colonial, and modern periods. The book first explains the geography of the region and describes the role of women in relation to men. Further chapters are devoted to the individual countries of the region. The book also includes two appendices: one describing the eminent women who have influenced the social, political, and cultural lives of Southeast Asia; and the other narrating the harrowing tales of comfort stations run by the Japanese Imperial Forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Pacific War/World War II (1941-1945). [Subject: Southeast Asian Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, History]

Bridges, Borders and Bodies

Christine Vogt-William

Author : Christine Vogt-William
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443868433

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Bridges, Borders and Bodies by Christine Vogt-William Pdf

South Asian diasporas can be considered transcultural legacies of colonialism, while constituting transcultural forms of postcolonial reality in today’s globalised world. The main focus of investigation here is South Asian women’s fiction, where diverse forms of identity negotiation undertaken by the protagonists in a number of contemporary novels (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) are read as transgressions. The themes of early gendered experiences of South Asian indentured labour migration, female genealogies and transmissions of cultural heritages down female lines, as well as negotiations of patriarchal violence, are read using a framework culled from postcolonial and feminist criticism. The literary representations of South Asian diasporic female experience in these texts are forms of commentary and critique by contemporary South Asian diasporic women writers. Hence these novels can be viewed as feminist strategies of textual creativity with distinct political aims of presenting transformative narratives addressing the tensions of diaspora and patriarchy. This book is intended to contribute to the current spectrum of academic work being done in diaspora studies, in that it brings together the concepts of diaspora, transculturality, contemporary women’s writing and transnational feminist critical approaches to bear on South Asian women’s diasporic literature. Contrary to the celebratory notion of the concept in much theory, transculturality, as represented in these texts, is fraught with ambivalence.

History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction

Chitra Sankaran

Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438441825

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History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction, but has consistently dealt with the dislocations, violence, and meetings of peoples and cultures engendered by colonialism. The essays in this volume analyze Ghosh's novels in ways that yield new insights into concepts central to postcolonial and transnational studies, making important intertextual connections and foregrounding links to prevailing theoretical and speculative scholarship. The work's introduction argues that irony is central to Ghosh's vision and discusses the importance of the concepts of "testimony" and "history" to Ghosh's narratives. An invaluable interview with Amitav Ghosh discusses individual works and the author's overall philosophy.

Women in Asia

Barbara N. Ramusack,Sharon L. Sievers

Author : Barbara N. Ramusack,Sharon L. Sievers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004283243

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Women in Asia by Barbara N. Ramusack,Sharon L. Sievers Pdf

Barbara N. Ramusack surveys the prescriptive roles and lived experiences of women from the period of the early states to the 1990s.

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies

Chi P. Pham,Chitra Sankaran,Gurpreet Kaur

Author : Chi P. Pham,Chitra Sankaran,Gurpreet Kaur
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781622736836

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Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies by Chi P. Pham,Chitra Sankaran,Gurpreet Kaur Pdf

Ecocriticism in relation to the Southeast Asian region is relatively new. So far, John Charles Ryan’s Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia is the first book of its kind to focus on the region and its literature to give an ecocritical analysis: that volume compiles analyses of the eco-literatures from most of the Southeast Asian region, providing a broad insight into the ecological concerns of the region as depicted in its literatures and other cultural texts. This edited volume furthers the study of Southeast Asian ecocriticism, focusing specifically on prominent myths and histories and the myriad ways in which they connect to the social fabric of the region. Our book is an original contribution to the expanding field of ecocriticism, as it highlights the mytho-historical basis of many of the region’s literatures and their relationship to the environment. The varied articles in this volume together explore the idea of nature and its relationship with humans. The always problematic questions that surround such explorations, such as “why do we regard nature as ‘external’?” or “how is humankind a continuum with nature?”, emerge throughout the volume either overtly or implicitly. As Pepper (1993) points out, what Karl Marx referenced as ‘first’ or ‘external’ nature gave rise to humankind. But humanity “worked on this ‘first’ nature to produce a ‘second’ nature: the material creations of society plus its institutions, ideas and values.” (Pepper, 108). Thus, our volume constantly negotiates this field of ideas and belief systems, in diverse ways and in various cultures, attempting to relate them to the current ecological predicaments of ASEAN. It will likely prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students of ecocriticism and, more broadly, of Southeast Asian cultures and literatures.

Ethnoecology

Ted L. Gragson,Ben G. Blount

Author : Ted L. Gragson,Ben G. Blount
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820321281

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Ethnoecology by Ted L. Gragson,Ben G. Blount Pdf

Scholars studying the ecology of specific areas often fail to take into account the presence of humans in those environments. People not only are fundamental components of an ecosystem but possess a unique understanding of its nature. This book examines subjects ranging from pastoralism to the use of medicinal plants to show that understanding the knowledge system of any people is essential to understanding their relation to their environment. Using cases from the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest, the Highland Maya Region of Central America, and the Lowland and Andean regions of South America, the contributors examine the relation of humans and environment within the context of each local system’s beliefs, values, and knowledge. All emphasize the practical and cultural significance of indigenous knowledge of the environment and the importance of comparing this knowledge to scientific understanding prior to initiating development or conservation programs. They also contribute to a theoretical approach that allows findings to be applied across studies, regardless of ethnographic differences.

The Way

Edward Goldsmith

Author : Edward Goldsmith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820333526

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The Way by Edward Goldsmith Pdf

First published in 1992, The Way is Edward Goldsmith's magnum opus. In it, he proposes that the stability and integrity of humans depend on the preservation of the balance of natural systems surrounding the individual--family, community, society, ecosystem, and the ecosphere itself. Portraying life processes and ecological thinking as holistic, Goldsmith calls for a paradigm shift away from the reductionist approach of modern science. The basic belief in the whole was at the heart of the worldview of primal, earth-oriented societies, as manifested by the Tao of the ancient Chinese, the R'ta of Vedic India, the Asha of the Avestas, and the Sedaq of the tribal Hebrews. The Way was the path taken to maintain the critical order of the cosmos. Echoing the way of traditional cultures, Goldsmith presents an all-embracing, coherent worldview that promotes more harmonious and sustainable practices capable of satisfying real biological, social, ecological, and spiritual needs. Revised to include a glossary, index, bibliographic notes, and several updated chapters, this is a major work by one of our boldest and most promising thinkers.

Women Subalterns And Ecologies In South And Southeast Asian Women S Fiction

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature by Douglas A. Vakoch Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate by Adeline Johns-Putra,Kelly Sultzbach Pdf

Storied Deserts by Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan Pdf

Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond by Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan Pdf

Empire and Environment by Jeffrey Santa Ana,Heidi Amin-Hong,Rina Garcia Chua,Xiaojing Zhou Pdf

Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction by Ruvani Ranasinha Pdf

Women in Southeast Asia by Surajit Kumar Bhagowati Pdf

Bridges, Borders and Bodies by Christine Vogt-William Pdf

History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

Women in Asia by Barbara N. Ramusack,Sharon L. Sievers Pdf

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies by Chi P. Pham,Chitra Sankaran,Gurpreet Kaur Pdf

Ethnoecology by Ted L. Gragson,Ben G. Blount Pdf

The Way by Edward Goldsmith Pdf

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