Questioning borders : Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan /

Questioning borders : Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Visser, Robin, 1962- author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Description:	viii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global Chinese culture Global Chinese culture.
Subject:	Ecoliterature, Chinese -- History and criticism. Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Chinese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism. Boundaries in literature. Ecocriticism in literature. Human ecology in literature. Indigenous authors -- China. Boundaries in literature. Chinese literature. Ecocriticism in literature. Human ecology in literature. Indigenous authors. China. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Literary criticism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13256988

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Varying Form of Title:	Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan
ISBN:	9780231199803 0231199805 9780231199810 0231199813 9780231553292
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Examines the growing prominence within Chinese-language literature of ecological perspectives from China's border cultures. Drawing on eco-literature by Mongolian, Tibetan, Taiwanese Indigenous, Yi, Kazakh, Uyghur, and Han writers, Visser argues that while Beijing promotes China's harmonious ecological civilization, it also strategically appropriates indigenous perspectives in eco-literature to strengthen control over its population. Some of the texts under consideration are little known, particularly those from Xinjiang, but many are widely popular and studied, like the 2004 novel Wolf Totem, which has been translated into more than 30 languages, or Alai's Red Poppies, arguably the best-known Chinese-language novel by a Tibetan writer"--
Other form:	Online version : Visser, Robin, 1962- Questioning borders New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] 9780231553292

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Summary:	Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.<br> <br> Informed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls "Beijing Westerns" with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies.<br> <br> By centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.
Physical Description:	viii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780231199803 0231199805 9780231199810 0231199813 9780231553292