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Author:   Agnes S. K. Yeow ,  Wai Liang Tham
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:  

9789819994687

ISBN 10:   9819994683
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The biosemiotic turn and Malaysian ecocriti-cism.- Part I: Cultivating multispecies worlds.- Chapter 2: Petikan dari halaman: An ecocritical reading of Lat’s graphic novels and Malay home gardens.- Chapter 3: On love, keepers and confiscated orang-utans.- Chapter 4: K.S. Maniam’s bestiary: Reading animality and identity in selected stories.- Part II: Mediating magical landscapes.- Chapter 5: Imperial enclosure, literary resistance: The case of Ishak Haji Muhammad’s Putera Gunung Tahan (1938).- Chapter 6: Other-than-human: Thinking like the forest gardens.- Chapter 7: An enchanted landscape: Rethinking ‘irrational ideas’ of human relations to nature.- Part III: Encountering other ecologies.- Chapter 8: Trashy tales and tales of Trash (2016): The making of waste in contemporary Malaysian short stories.- Chapter 9: The other Malay: Nature and subversive sexualities in Dina Zaman’s King of the Sea (2012).- Part IV: Defending the tanah air.- Chapter 10: An excerpt from Memoirs of a Malaysian Eco-Activist (2017).- Chapter 11: The eco-hero in Malaysian novels: From solitary figures to group solidarity. 

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Dr Agnes S. K. Yeow taught at the Department of English in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, until her retirement. Her research areas encompassed topics related to the environmental humanities, including climate change literature, postcolonial ecocriticism and migrant ecologies. Wai Liang Tham has a background in English from his postgraduate studies at Universiti Malaya and is currently affiliated with the research department at New Naratif. His creative and nonfiction works have been published in NANG , PR&TA and the Southeast Asian Review of English.

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