A Taiwanese eco-literature reader /
"After the lifting of Martial Law in Taiwan, post-1987 democratic transition established fertile ground for different literary genres, ideologies, and movements to grow. Eco-literature developed at this critical moment and today stands out as one of the most prominent genres in the contemporary...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | "After the lifting of Martial Law in Taiwan, post-1987 democratic transition established fertile ground for different literary genres, ideologies, and movements to grow. Eco-literature developed at this critical moment and today stands out as one of the most prominent genres in the contemporary literary landscape of Taiwan. This anthology selects a range of important authors from different intellectual, ethnic, and linguistic milieus whose fictional or nonfictional works greatly contribute to the field. In this polyphone and heterogenous context, their works collectively form a uniquely Taiwanese ecoheterotopia-a cultural and discursive ecology that evolves, contradicts, and transforms itself. This anthology is divided into four sections by genres and themes. The first section focuses on indigenous eco-writings, including an excerpt from Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Sky. Their literary (re-)presentations of Paiwan and Tao cosmologies challenge conventional understandings of the natural environments (e.g., shifting definitions and boundaries between mountains and seas). The second section explores the themes of human-animal relations and interspecies communications that have long occupied the central ground of ecocritical debates. The third section turns toward the future, and attempts to grasp the threat of anthropogenic climate change and environmental destruction. This section introduces the emerging genre of eco sci-fi (also known as cli-fi) or speculative fiction with a cyber-punk flair, including Chi Ta-wei's Membranes. The final section points toward new directions in the eco-writing of Taiwan, including short stories by Wu Ming-yi and Chiu Charng-ting, which together suggest a new genre of "indigenous speculative writings," uniquely combining indigenous ontologies with speculative realism"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780231565066 (electronic bk.) 9780231564199 (electronic bk.) 0231564198 (electronic bk.) |