John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and honorary research fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

This edited collection of essays is a crucial and exciting contribution to ecocritical scholarship for many reasons.... Certainly, this timely and important anthology facilitates critical debates around Southeast Asian environmental issues and highlights the creative and innovative work of both mainstream and minority writers and thinkers who might otherwise remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. While ecocritics lament the lacuna in Southeast Asia where world ecocritical studies is concerned, especially with the prominence of studies on Indian and East Asian literatures, this book successfully addresses and fills that gap, hence fulfilling one of Ryan’s primary goals..... The other contributions in the book encompass a wide scope of topics, tropes and genres, ranging from forests and rivers to travelogues and children or young adult literature, adding grist to the mill. This, along with the meticulous insertion of cross-references between chapters in the interest of coherence, adds to the book’s many merits. All in all, this considered and insightful book is a landmark in ecocriticism and will doubtless draw critical attention to the environmental realities of Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Southeast Asian EcocriticismJohn Charles RyanChapter 2 Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of ThailandIgnasi Ribó Chapter 3 Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and ProseJeffrey Santa AnaChapter 4 Imaging Indigenous Relationships With Nature: The Case of Igorot Music VideosJason Paolo R. TellesChapter 5 Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis’s Novel Fish-Hair Woman Chitra SankaranChapter 6 Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of “Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham” from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart)Chaiyon TongsukkaengChapter 7 Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat’s PoetryThanya SangkhaphanthanonChapter 8 From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of MyanmarJohn Charles RyanChapter 9 Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Pas

John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and honorary research fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

This edited collection of essays is a crucial and exciting contribution to ecocritical scholarship for many reasons.... Certainly, this timely and important anthology facilitates critical debates around Southeast Asian environmental issues and highlights the creative and innovative work of both mainstream and minority writers and thinkers who might otherwise remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. While ecocritics lament the lacuna in Southeast Asia where world ecocritical studies is concerned, especially with the prominence of studies on Indian and East Asian literatures, this book successfully addresses and fills that gap, hence fulfilling one of Ryan’s primary goals..... The other contributions in the book encompass a wide scope of topics, tropes and genres, ranging from forests and rivers to travelogues and children or young adult literature, adding grist to the mill. This, along with the meticulous insertion of cross-references between chapters in the interest of coherence, adds to the book’s many merits. All in all, this considered and insightful book is a landmark in ecocriticism and will doubtless draw critical attention to the environmental realities of Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Southeast Asian EcocriticismJohn Charles RyanChapter 2 Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of ThailandIgnasi Ribó Chapter 3 Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and ProseJeffrey Santa AnaChapter 4 Imaging Indigenous Relationships With Nature: The Case of Igorot Music VideosJason Paolo R. TellesChapter 5 Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis’s Novel Fish-Hair Woman Chitra SankaranChapter 6 Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of “Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham” from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart)Chaiyon TongsukkaengChapter 7 Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat’s PoetryThanya SangkhaphanthanonChapter 8 From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of MyanmarJohn Charles RyanChapter 9 Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Pas

John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and honorary research fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

This edited collection of essays is a crucial and exciting contribution to ecocritical scholarship for many reasons.... Certainly, this timely and important anthology facilitates critical debates around Southeast Asian environmental issues and highlights the creative and innovative work of both mainstream and minority writers and thinkers who might otherwise remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. While ecocritics lament the lacuna in Southeast Asia where world ecocritical studies is concerned, especially with the prominence of studies on Indian and East Asian literatures, this book successfully addresses and fills that gap, hence fulfilling one of Ryan’s primary goals..... The other contributions in the book encompass a wide scope of topics, tropes and genres, ranging from forests and rivers to travelogues and children or young adult literature, adding grist to the mill. This, along with the meticulous insertion of cross-references between chapters in the interest of coherence, adds to the book’s many merits. All in all, this considered and insightful book is a landmark in ecocriticism and will doubtless draw critical attention to the environmental realities of Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Southeast Asian EcocriticismJohn Charles RyanChapter 2 Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of ThailandIgnasi Ribó Chapter 3 Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and ProseJeffrey Santa AnaChapter 4 Imaging Indigenous Relationships With Nature: The Case of Igorot Music VideosJason Paolo R. TellesChapter 5 Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis’s Novel Fish-Hair Woman Chitra SankaranChapter 6 Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of “Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham” from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart)Chaiyon TongsukkaengChapter 7 Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat’s PoetryThanya SangkhaphanthanonChapter 8 From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of MyanmarJohn Charles RyanChapter 9 Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Pas