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Author:   Ignasi Ribó ,  Ignasi Ribó ,  Soorya Alex ,  Paloma Chaterji
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
ISBN:  

9781666933024

ISBN 10:   1666933023
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   05 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Nguyễn Bình Phương’s 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 Bacigalupi’s 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

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""Humans are not the center of everything. The book's 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 region's growing interest in what lies beyond human."" --Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines Diliman ""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

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Ignasi Ribó is associate professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University.

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