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Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia: Rethinking the Human

Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia: Rethinking the Human

Hardcover

Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3032119863
ISBN13: 9783032119865
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 251
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.23 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and ethical responsibilities, seeking to fill a major lacuna in previous academic literature around ecocriticism in speculative fiction. Contributions are thematically organized into three sections--Human-Nature Co-evolution and Ecomedia, Technologies and East Asian Heritage, and Posthuman Ecology. Chapter authors draw on global viewpoints to provide a multi-dimensional analysis that includes Indigenous knowledge, trans-local (inter-Asian) exchanges, and perspectives from the Global South. To end, the book provides a reflection on how speculative fiction promotes a vision of interconnected kinship among humans, the nonhuman, and the natural world.

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