Vol 8, No 1 (2018)

Special Issue on Ecocriticism in Asia

Table of Contents

Special Issue Introduction

INTRODUCTION - Ecology and Indigeneity: An Exploration of ASEAN Literatures
Chitra Sankaran
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Keynote Papers

Ecological Immunity and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312
Hannes Bergthaller
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Empiricism, Information Management, and Environmental Humanities
Scott Slovic
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Articles

Retailing and Retelling: Capitalism and Nature in “A monk walks along Orchard Road”
Zhengwen LU
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Imagining Oneness: Charting Ecological Currents in Edwin Thumboo’s Poetry
Arka Mondal
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Reconstructing the Wilderness: Finding Identity, Culture and Values in Filipino Children’s Literature
Apple Audrey L. Noda
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Apocalyptic Vision in Laotian Short Story “The Roar of a Distant War” by Viliya Ketavong
Chitra Sankaran
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Special Feature: Conference Papers

Ecopoetics and ‘the Bestial’: Negotiating Human Dignity in Two Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia
Uma Jayaraman
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Music in The River’s Song by Suchen Christine Lim
Qi Feng LIN
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A Sense of Place, a Sense of Home and a Sense of Self: Ecological Imagination in Hoang A Sang’s The Dreams of Chestnut Colour
Thi Dieu Linh NGUYEN
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The Literary Geography of The Japanese Army Camp in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng
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Women, Animals and Violence: Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain and Lee Yew Leong’s “Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”
Gurpreet Kaur
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Book Reviews

Seymour, Nicole. Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Justin Derry
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Feder, Helena. Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Print.
Jasara Hines
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Foster, John Wilson. Pilgrims of the Air. Devon, UK: Notting Hill Editions, 2014. Print.
Andrew B. Ross
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Nilsen, Micheline. The Working Man’s Green Space: Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919. Charlottesville and London: U of Virginia P, 2014. 248 p.
Daniel Clausen
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Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Print.
Justin Noetzel
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Brazeau, Robert, and Derek Gladwin. Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce. Cork: Cork University Press, 2014. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78205-072-8.
Judith Paltin
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Piper, Karen. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Mark Minster
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Lane, Melissa. Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living. Princeton UP, 2012. 256 pp. Paperback 19.95, Hardcover 45.00.
Madison Jones
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Schliephake, Christopher. Urban Ecologies: City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
Adam Sweeting
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Capra, Professor Fritjof, and Pier Luigi Luisi. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision. Reprint edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Derek John Woods
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Material Ecocriticism. Ed. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014. 359 pp.
Yeojin Kim
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