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Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan's poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars, and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the book, written by and from the perspective of an indigene, begins by giving readers a glimpse into the kind of world in the east in which the author came of age. It then relates this world to the western worlds that Hogan writes about in her poetry and prose. Chapter Two focuses on Hogan's most recently published novel, People of the Whale (2008), and on the arguments that the novel makes about the environmentally unsustainable acts of corporate globalization that involve the trade in endangered animal species. Huang relates those arguments to the oil industry in Taiwan and to the extirpation of cetacean species in the waters of Taiwan by this industry. Chapter Three is an analysis of the novel Mean Spirit (1990). Huang reads this novel mostly through the lens of environmental justice arguments. Chapter Four addresses the novel Solar Storms (1995) from the perspective of ecofeminist theory and in the context of the issue of the escalation of mega-dams in East Asia. Chapter Five analyses the novel Power from animal studies perspectives. Chapter Six is a comparative studies reading of poems by several prominent Chinese, Taiwanese, and Aboriginal poets-Taiwanese poet Ka-hsiang Liu, Paiwan poet Mona Neng, Atayal poet Walis Nokan, and Chinese-Taiwanese poet Guangzhong Yu-and Hogan's latest collection of poetry, entitled Dark. Sweet: New & Selected Poems (2014). In his reading of this work, Huang relies on a definition of "ecopoetry" in Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street's recently published The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013). He also brings together the main theoretical ecocritical terms that he discusses in the previous chapters.
Show moreLinda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan's poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars, and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the book, written by and from the perspective of an indigene, begins by giving readers a glimpse into the kind of world in the east in which the author came of age. It then relates this world to the western worlds that Hogan writes about in her poetry and prose. Chapter Two focuses on Hogan's most recently published novel, People of the Whale (2008), and on the arguments that the novel makes about the environmentally unsustainable acts of corporate globalization that involve the trade in endangered animal species. Huang relates those arguments to the oil industry in Taiwan and to the extirpation of cetacean species in the waters of Taiwan by this industry. Chapter Three is an analysis of the novel Mean Spirit (1990). Huang reads this novel mostly through the lens of environmental justice arguments. Chapter Four addresses the novel Solar Storms (1995) from the perspective of ecofeminist theory and in the context of the issue of the escalation of mega-dams in East Asia. Chapter Five analyses the novel Power from animal studies perspectives. Chapter Six is a comparative studies reading of poems by several prominent Chinese, Taiwanese, and Aboriginal poets-Taiwanese poet Ka-hsiang Liu, Paiwan poet Mona Neng, Atayal poet Walis Nokan, and Chinese-Taiwanese poet Guangzhong Yu-and Hogan's latest collection of poetry, entitled Dark. Sweet: New & Selected Poems (2014). In his reading of this work, Huang relies on a definition of "ecopoetry" in Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street's recently published The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013). He also brings together the main theoretical ecocritical terms that he discusses in the previous chapters.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: People of the Whale, Corporate Globalization, Night
Markets,
and Cetacean Activism
Chapter Three: Mean Spirit, Environmental Justice, and Postcolonial
Ecocriticism
Chapter Four: Water Women, Mega Dams, Solar Storms, Ecofeminism
Chapter Five: Power, Dark Ecology, and Animal Studies
Chapter Six: Conclusion: Ecopoetry
Bibliography
About the author
Peter I-min Huang is associate professor of English at Tamkang University.
Nobody but Peter Huang could have written this book. Linda Hogan
and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers is an utterly unique,
insightful, and endearing study of one of America’s most eloquent
environmental writers and her connections with environmental and
aboriginal writers on the island of Taiwan. This is a beautiful
example of comparative, ecofeminist, animal-oriented, environmental
justice, postcolonial, and ecopoetic scholarship.
*Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of The Routledge
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication*
This book crosses boundaries, connects worlds, and makes a
difference. I-Min Huang is the first person to connect the work of
Linda Hogan to matters of Taiwanese indigeneity through comparative
analyses about environmental issues. This book opens doors for
important future research.
*Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University*
Peter I-min Huang’s Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers:
An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is an
original and an in-depth study of Linda Hogan’s novels and
ecopoetry from a mélange of environmental humanities perspectives:
postcolonial and environmental justice ecocriticism, and
ecofeminist and animal studies; but not only. What makes the book
thoroughly original is Huang’s masterful analysis of Hogan’s work
in relation to contemporary Taiwanese writers, using the ethical
insights and ecological arguments provided by indigenous studies
scholars. This comparative analysis of Hogan and Taiwanese writers,
performed in a theoretically sophisticated but also in an
easy-to-understand way, widens the scope of environmental literary
and cultural criticism by bridging the often undetected gaps in
overlapping areas of research in the field of the Environmental
Humanities.
*Serpil Oppermann, Professor of English, Hacettepe University,
Turkey*
Just as Linda Hogan connects environmental literature with
indigenous struggles for life—for gender, species, and
environmental justice—and brings these struggles to voice through
her lyrical fiction and poetry, so too does Peter Huang serve as an
ecocritical border-crosser, connecting indigenous North American
struggles with the struggles and literature of indigenous
Taiwanese. This readable, literate volume expands our understanding
of indigeneity as both a global and deeply-rooted, local approach
to resisting colonization and cherishing all life on earth."
*Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin, River Falls*
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