Karen Thornber: 3 books
Ecoambiguity
Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development
Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon...
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many...