Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature

Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9783030356187
ISBN-13 : 3030356183
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Book Synopsis Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature by : Begoña Simal-González

Download or read book Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature written by Begoña Simal-González and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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