Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

AvChitra Sankaran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
ISBN:9780820360874

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Djurböcker inom Djur och Natur

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CHITRA SANKARAN is an associate professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Her field of study is ecocriticism using a Southeast Asian and South Asian corpus.

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The intersections between ecophilosophical concepts from diverse parts of the world come through powerfully in Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies. This book is extremely effective in presenting important ecopostcolonial and ecofeminist literature from South Asia and Southeast Asia that is not, in many cases, likely to be familiar to Western readers.

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