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Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures|East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages portrays people as damaging everything from small woodlands to the entire planet. These texts seldom talk about environmental crises straightforwardly. Instead, like much creative writing on degraded ecosystems, they highlight what Karen Laura Thornber calls ecoambiguity —the complex, contradictory interactions between people and the nonhuman environment. Ecoambiguity is the first book in any language to analyze Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese literary treatments of damaged ecosystems. Thornber closely examines East Asian creative portrayals of inconsistent human attitudes, behaviors, and information concerning the environment and takes up texts by East Asians who have been translated and celebrated around the world, including Gao Xingjian, Ishimure Michiko,

Who reads Ecoambiguity : Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures?

Author

Karen Laura Thornber; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press; University of Michigan Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472118069

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Nature