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Author:   Shiuhhuah Serena Chou ,  Soyoung Kim ,  Rob Sean Wilson
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2022 ed.
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9783031040467

ISBN 10:   3031040465
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   05 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1:Unearthing and Historicizing Regions.- Chapter 1: Geo-Political Fantasy: Continental Action Movies.- Chapter 2: Transpacific and Interracial World-Making in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat.- Chapter 3: The Place of Worlding: Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in Central Asia and Korea.- Chapter 4: Beyond Complicities: China as Eco-Peril and Worlding the Techno-Dystopian.- Chapter 5: Queering South Pacific into Ono Hai in Leche.- Chapter 6: My Beast, My Brother, and My Alpha Creation in Taiwanese Sci Fi.- Part 2: Activism, Vision, and Intervention.-  Chapter 7: Violence, Magic, Certainty: Towards a Journalistic Worlding of the Middle East.- Chapter 8: Refugee Migration through the Division System: On the Ethics of Co-Presence in Krys Lee’s How I Became a North Korean.- Chapter 9: The Crusades and a Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali's Activism and Alternative World in The Book of Saladin.- Chapter 10: Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora Across Asia-Pacific Worlds.- Chapter 11: Call Me Ishimaru: Sailing Transpacific Worlds of Labor and Community from Japan to Brazil to the Americas.- Part 3: Planetary Creation: Critique and Cosmos.- Chapter 12: Friction or Flow? Ecological Transnationalism in Japanese Animation.- Chapter 13: Hurricanes and Kaiju: Climate Change and Toxicity Across the Pacific in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim.- Chapter 14: Albatross Unbound: Worlding the Plastic Sea.- Chapter 15: Agrarianism, Disappointment, and the Mystery of Witnessing.- Chapter 16: Listening to Archipelagic Rains.- Chapter 17: Trans-indigenous Coalitions and Ecological Ties Across Oceania (poetry).- Chapter 18: Epilogue; Reworlding Asia: Towards Alchemies of Planetary Regeneration.

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Shiuhhuah Serena Chou is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include transpacific agricultural environmentalism, Asian American environmental literature, and medical-environmental humanities. She is author of numerous scholarly and creative publications on American organic farming literature and culture and gardens with her colleagues in her office rooftop farm.    Soyoung Kim is Professor of Cinema Studies at Korea National University of Arts, South Korea, and Director of Trans: Asia Screen Culture Institute. She is author of Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster, Trans-Cinema (forthcoming) and has published numerous books in Korean on Postcolonial modernity, gender, and cinema. As a filmmaker, she directed ‘Exile Trilogy’ set in Central Asia, Russia, and Korea and ‘Women's History Trilogy’. She taught at UC Berkeley andDuke University, USA, as a visiting professor. Rob Wilson received a doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where he was founding editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. He is author of a dual-language poetry book When the Nikita Moon Rose (2021) and Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists (2010). He teaches literature, cultural studies, and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.

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