By Karen Thornber
ISBN-10: 0472118064
ISBN-13: 9780472118069
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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