Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigenous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativity of contemporary literature, art, music, drama, film, and other media. This book expands and enriches Southeast Asian ecocritical scholarship by incorporating posthumanist and new materialist perspectives. Across twelve chapters, this volume explicitly engages with Southeast Asian texts, cultural practices, and environmental issues from the broadly conceived theoretical framework of posthuman ecocriticism. They provide a uniquely inflected perspective on the literary, multimedia, and artistic dimensions of contemporary nature-cultures in Southeast Asia, as part of a concerted effort to disclose the complex entanglements of humans and nonhumans across the region.
This book explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region.
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"The pathbreaking volume Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries, edited by Ignasi Ribó, offers a rare insight into ways in which various literary and cultural texts across Southeast Asia negotiate the relatively new terrain of posthumanism through an ecocritical lens. The book is unique in thoughtfully combining Anglo-American theory with analysis of hitherto unavailable narratives accessed from native Southeast Asian languages. By doing so, it offers native and insider perspectives on ways in which indigenous worldviews on the more-than-human world merge with contemporary cutting-edge theories.
The chapters range from an analysis of narratives surrounding the unique fruit durian, endemic to the region and a phyto-investigation of Indonesian poems on the banana and the papaya fruits, to exploring the animation landscape of Southeast Asia as posthuman ecoscapes and discussing animals and performance. These are only a few examples of the exciting new scholarship that the volume offers. All these converge to present the enriching developments that are occurring all over Southeast Asia in the field of posthuman ecology. This is a must-read critical volume that opens a whole new world of academic insights that augment yet challenge, contravene yet support Western perspectives by offering unique insights from ancient and modern Asian traditions." -- Chitra Sankaran, National University of Singapore "Humans are not the center of everything. The books discursive use of critical posthumanism reminds us human readers that our planet is shared and must be shared equitably. The essays engagement with posthumanist issues in Southeast Asian literature and culture attests to the regions growing interest in what lies beyond human." -- Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines Diliman
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This book explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Posthuman Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia Ignasi Ribó
Chapter 1: Cultivating Botanical Wisdom: Durian Narratives and the Plant
Posthumanities John Charles Ryan
Chapter 2: A Phyto-Investigation of Banana and Papaya in Contemporary
Indonesian Poems Henrikus Joko Yulianto
Chapter 3: Not Becoming-Human, What Am I-Becoming, O Tree?: On Nguyn Bģnh
Phngs Posthuman Poetics Tran Ngoc Hieu and Tran Hoang Kieu Trang
Chapter 4: Formosan Multispecies Ethnographies: Life Accounts of Rock Monkeys
in Robert Swinhoe Li-Ru Lu
Chapter 5: Agent Orange and the Exposed Bodies of Vietnam: Trans-Corporeal
Abjection and Embodied Difference Reshma Sanil and Rashmi Gaur
Chapter 6: Transcending the Anthropocene: Ecology and the Posthuman in
Southeast Asian Fictions Paloma Chaterji
Chapter 7: Vulnerability and Precarity in Paolo Bacigalupis The Windup Girl:
A Posthumanist Reading Soorya Alex
Chapter 8: The Environment as Kapwa: Decentering the Self Through the
Exploration of Human and More-than-human Entanglements in Hiligaynon
Ecopoetry Maria Anjelica Wong and Antonio D. Salazar Jr.
Chapter 9: Theatre of Animals and Gods: Zoo Animals Perform to Educate
Catherine Diamond
Chapter 10: Posthuman Ecoscapes: Synthetic Materiality and Distributed
Cognition in Southeast Asian Animation Nathan Snow
Chapter 11: Post-Marxism and the Pluriverse: Antagonism and Heterogeneity in
More-than-human Worlds Min Seong Kim
Index
About the Contributors
Ignasi Ribó is associate professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University.
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