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By Karen Thornber

ISBN-10: 0472118064

ISBN-13: 9780472118069

East Asian literatures are recognized for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting humans as in detail hooked up with the flora and fauna. yet in reality, as the sector has a protracted heritage of reworking and exploiting nature, a lot of the fiction and poetry within the chinese language, eastern, and Korean languages portrays humans as harmful every little thing from small woodlands to the complete planet. those texts seldom discuss environmental crises straightforwardly. as a substitute, like a lot inventive writing on degraded ecosystems, they spotlight what Karen Laura Thornber calls ecoambiguity—the advanced, contradictory interactions among humans and the nonhuman environment.

 

Ecoambiguity is the 1st publication in any language to research chinese language, jap, Korean, and Taiwanese literary remedies of broken ecosystems. Thornber heavily examines East Asian artistic portrayals of inconsistent human attitudes, behaviors, and data about the setting and takes up texts by means of East Asians who've been translated and celebrated worldwide, together with Gao Xingjian, Ishimure Michiko, Jiang Rong, and Ko Un, in addition to fiction and poetry by way of authors little identified even of their homelands. Ecoambiguity addresses such environmental crises as deforesting, damming, pollutants, overpopulation, species eradication, weather switch, and nuclear apocalypse. This booklet opens new portals of inquiry in either East Asian literatures and ecocriticism (literature and surroundings studies), in addition to in comparative and international literature.

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