Empire and Environment : : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific.

• Author: Santa Ana, Jeffrey.
• TeilnehmendeR: Amin-Hong, Heidi.; Chua, Rina Garcia.; Zhou, Xiaojing.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Out of the Ruins | Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Introduction: Confronting Ecological Ruination in the Transpacific | Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing -- Part I. (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific -- excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) | Craig Santos Perez -- 1. Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Ecological Ruin, Imperialist Nostalgia, and Indigenous Erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited | Jeffrey Santa Ana -- 2. Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space | Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez -- 3. Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films | Chitra Sankaran -- 4. "If We Return We Will Learn": Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New Guinea | John Charles Ryan -- Part II. Militarized Environments -- "Nuclear Family" (poem) | Craig Santos Perez -- 5. Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For | Emily Cheng -- 6. Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire | Heidi Amin-Hong -- 7. Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Ecopoetry against Colonial Ruination | Zhou Xiaojing -- Part III. Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance -- "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) | Craig Santos Perez -- 8. Risk and Resistance at Pōhakuloa | Rebecca H. Hogue -- 9. "Disentrancing" the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry | Rina Garcia Chua -- 10. Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature | Ti-Han Chang -- Part IV. Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities -- "Age of Plastic" (poem) | Craig Santos Perez -- 11. Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel | Amy Lee -- 12. Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha | Emalani Case.

13. Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli Artists | Chad Shomura -- Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" | Priscilla Wald -- Contributors -- Index.