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Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigenous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativity of contemporary literature, art, music, drama, film, and other media. This book expands and enriches Southeast Asian ecocritical scholarship by incorporating posthumanist and new materialist perspectives. Across twelve chapters, this volume explicitly engages with Southeast Asian texts, cultural practices, and environmental issues from the broadly conceived theoretical framework of posthuman ecocriticism. They provide a uniquely inflected perspective on the literary, multimedia, and artistic dimensions of contemporary nature-cultures in Southeast Asia, as part of a concerted effort to disclose the complex entanglements of humans and nonhumans across the region.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ecocritical Posthumanism in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 1: Cultivating Botanical Wisdom: Durian Narratives and the Plant Posthumanities
- Chapter 2: A Phyto-Investigation of Banana and Papaya in Contemporary Indonesian Poems
- Chapter 3: ‘Not Becoming-Human, What Am I Becoming, O Tree?’: On Nguyễn Bình Phương’s Posthuman Poetics
- Chapter 4: Formosan Multispecies Ethnographies: Life Accounts of Rock Monkeys in Robert Swinhoe
- Chapter 5: Agent Orange and the Exposed Bodies of Vietnam: Trans-Corporeal Abjection and Embodied Difference
- Chapter 6: Transcending the Anthropocene: Ecology and the Posthuman in Southeast Asian Fictions
- Chapter 7: Vulnerability and Precarity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl: A Posthumanist Reading
- Chapter 8: The Environment as Kapwa: Decentering the Self Through the Exploration of Human and More-than-human Entanglements in Hiligaynon Ecopoetry
- Chapter 9: Theatre of Animals and Gods: Zoo Animals Perform to Educate
- Chapter 10: Posthuman Ecoscapes: Synthetic Materiality and Distributed Cognition in Southeast Asian Animation
- Chapter 11: Post-Marxism and the Pluriverse: Antagonism and Heterogeneity in More-than-Human Worlds
- Index
- About the Contributors