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“O’er-Green My Bad” (Sonnet 112): Nature Writing in the Sonnets
The Sonnets are fraught with references to nature and much has already been said of the tropes related to flowers and the seasonal cycle. Yet...
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Filiation and White Freedom: Class, Race, and Sexuality in Brome’s A Jovial Crew
Richard Brome’s seventeenth-century play A Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars imagines complex intersections between class, race, and sexuality in its...
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The 1940s: A Divided World
As the Japanese blasted open the gateway to the North China plain, the sword of Damocles that had hung over Chinese people’s heads since the Opium...
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The 1930s: Myths in the Crevice of Civilizations
With the debacle of the Great RevolutionGreat Revolution in 1927, the phenomenal cultural changes that had taken place on the floating stage of the...
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Transforming Vision: The Pastoral, the Georgic, and Evolutionary Thought in Booker T. Washington
This chapter proposes an alternative ecocritical angle on two of Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, Up from Slavery (1901) and Working with the...
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Introduction: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
This essay provides a brief introduction to issues of environment, culture, and narrative in Vietnam as well as a survey of the other essays included...
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Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral
In this chapter, I propose to explore pastoral aesthetics and ethics in the work of science fiction writer Liu Cixin (1963), well known for his The...
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Utopia as Urban Testing Ground: Spatial and Social Forms in the Works of Ebenezer Howard and H.G. Wells
Utopia as a method for speculating on potential futures in architecture slowly declined since the modernist period and has until today almost...
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Ecology in seventeenth-century Japan: the ‘Great Way’ of Kumazawa Banzan
The introduction glances at the historical background of seventeenth-century Japan and the role of Kumazawa Banzan. His views are then presented as a...
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Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction
This essay contributes to the postcolonial ecocriticism by examining political allegories in three Vietnamese short stories:“Kiến và người” (The Ants...
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Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System
This chapter examines what it terms the “alimentary Gothic.” Its focus is Puerto Rico, an island long subject to US food power. Organized around two...
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Dangers of Postwar Satiety in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952)
The chapter argues that Lou Ford, protagonist of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, is a pathologization of the prewar tough masculinity and...
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From “Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought” to “Burning of Books and Burying of Confucian Scholars”: The Warring States Period to Qin Dynasty
From the end of the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, Chinese society experienced a sharp upheaval, social hierarchy gradually...
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Space, Mobility, and Belonging: Finding One’s Way Through Pre-Apartheid Johannesburg
This chapter focuses on (im)mobility to analyze asymmetrical patterns of power in the formation of collective identities in 1940s South African works...
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Introduction
This book is the result of an ecocritical reading of a wide range of texts—from brief tales and short stories to chronicles, plays, and novels—as...
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Samsara, Violence, and Satire: A Discussion of the Absurd Narration in Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan’s novels are inevitably focused on history and the countryside, but usually, they also demonstrate an ability to push beyond the confines of...
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The King of Electricity from the East: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China
Centering upon the novel, Electrical World, this chapter makes an in-depth exploration and analysis of the imagination of the world order in late...
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Petikan dari halaman: An Ecocritical Reading of Lat’s Graphic Novels and the Malay Home Garden
The graphic novels by the Malaysian cartoonist, Lat, represent autobiographical accounts of life in traditional Malay villages. Within these visual...