Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader

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Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader

Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities

Yeow, Agnes S. K.; Tham, Wai Liang

Springer Verlag, Singapore

02/2024

224

Dura

Inglês

9789819994656

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1: Introduction: The biosemiotic turn and Malaysian ecocriti-cism.- Part I: Cultivating multispecies worlds.- Chapter 2: Petikan dari halaman: An ecocritical reading of Lat's graphic novels and Malay home gardens.- Chapter 3: On love, keepers and confiscated orang-utans.- Chapter 4: K.S. Maniam's bestiary: Reading animality and identity in selected stories.- Part II: Mediating magical landscapes.- Chapter 5: Imperial enclosure, literary resistance: The case of Ishak Haji Muhammad's Putera Gunung Tahan (1938).- Chapter 6: Other-than-human: Thinking like the forest gardens.- Chapter 7: An enchanted landscape: Rethinking 'irrational ideas' of human relations to nature.- Part III: Encountering other ecologies.- Chapter 8: Trashy tales and tales of Trash (2016): The making of waste in contemporary Malaysian short stories.- Chapter 9: The other Malay: Nature and subversive sexualities in Dina Zaman's King of the Sea (2012).- Part IV: Defending the tanah air.- Chapter 10: An excerpt from Memoirs of a Malaysian Eco-Activist (2017).- Chapter 11: The eco-hero in Malaysian novels: From solitary figures to group solidarity.
Malaysian environmental literatures;Postcolonial ecocriticism in Malaysia;Malaysian natural history;Ecological and place identities in Malaysia;Environmental justice and eco-heroism in Malaysia;Material ecocriticism in Malaysia;Human-nonhuman relations in Malaysia;Malaysian climate change narratives;Malaysian ecomedia;Sustainability and conservation in Malaysia;Orang asli and Indigenous knowledge;Malaysian literature and the Anthropocene;Slow violence in Malaysian literature;Indigenous home gardens as text;Native magic in Malaysian fiction;Postcolonial indigeneity in Malaysian fiction;Orangutan conservation in Sarawak