Empire and Environment Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University.
Heidi Amin-Hong is Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rina Garcia Chua is a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Zhou Xiaojing is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific.
<p>“<i>Empire and Environment </i>is an important volume with scholarship of the highest quality that will be valuable to scholars and graduate and undergraduate students. The book puts into conversation interdisciplinary and transnational writers, activists, and poetry. The range of artists and scholars gathered together allow for coverage of diverse interests, disciplines, and geographies. It also makes for a dynamic read and will appeal to a variety of readers.”</p>
- Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University,
<p>"Living up to the promise of their anthology titles, editors Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing bring together a heterogenous collection of works not only to consider the ruinous impacts of imperialism and colonialism across the Pacific region, but also to recognize the current and future possibilities of decolonial environmental justice and self-determination. <i>Empire and Environment</i> is certain to be a key interdisciplinary text for those interested in transpacific studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, empire and settler colonialism."</p>
- Ashanti Shih, H-Net,
<p>"By bringing destructive consequences of capitalism into dialogue with ecological destruction across and within the Pacific region, <i>Empire and Environment</i> increases our understanding of the complexities and conflicts of present-day global ecological systems deeply and persistently shaped by histories of colonialism, militarism, extractive imperialism, and racial capitalism."</p>
- Hanyue Li, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies,
<p>"With its strategic turn to the Pacific region as the locus of its critique, the book lets emerge often understated transpacific sensibilities, which in turn grants visibility to alternative coalitions that are grounded not only in geographical proximities but also in struggles and worldviews that resonate across the region and beyond. As such, more than articulating of the endurance of imperial debris, <i>Empire and Environment</i> reminds us that among the ruins there also lie possible futures, with marginalized human and nonhuman lives perpetually persisting." </p>
- Christian Jil R. Benitez, The Journal of Asian Studies,
<p>"Overall, <i>Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific</i> is a valuable addition to the environmental humanities and to postcolonial and decolonial studies. It constellates a commendable breadth of cultural examples from across the Pacific, connecting environmental crises to interconnected critiques of capitalism, colonialism and empire."</p>
Matthew Lear, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
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.
Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions
Acknowledgements
Preface: Out of the Ruins
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Introduction
Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing
PART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific
from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez
1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and
Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong’s The Disinherited
Jeffrey Santa Ana
2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space
Kathleen Gutierrez
3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films
Chitra Sankaran
4 “If We Return We Will Learn:” Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge
in Papua New Guinea
John Charles Ryan
PART II: Militarized Environments
Nuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez
5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy’s
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Emily Cheng
6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire
Heidi Amin-Hong
7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination
Zhou Xiaojing
PART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance
Praise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez
8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\ōhakuloa
Rebecca Hogue
9 “Disentrancing” the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry
Rina Garcia Chua
10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese
Literature
Tihan Chang
PART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities
Age of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez
11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee
12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha
Emalani Case
13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and
Kanaka Maoli Artists
Chad Shomura
Afterword: “A New Way Beyond the Darkness”
Priscilla Wald
Contributors
Index
“Empire and Environment speaks to the urgency of the contemporary political moment and to the long histories of militarization, empire, and extraction that continue to shape transpacific ecologies. It centers the political, literary, and artistic work of Pacific Islanders, diasporic Asians, and Asian North Americans as offering the crucial insights, theories, and resistance that are necessary to developing sustainable and decolonial futures. This is an outstanding, important collection.”
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University.
Heidi Amin-Hong is Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rina Garcia Chua is a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Zhou Xiaojing is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific.