{"product_id":"9783031040467","title":"Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture : Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection opens the geospatiality of \"Asia\" into an environmental framework called \"Oceania\" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this \"worlding\" process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFresh Off the Boat\u003c\/i\u003e.- 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 \u003ci\u003eSouth Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e into Ono Hai in \u003ci\u003eLeche.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 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 \u003ci\u003eHow I Became a North Korean.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 9: The Crusades and a Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali's Activism and Alternative World in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Saladin.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 10: Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora Across Asia-Pacific Worlds.- Chapter 11: \u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishimaru\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 \u003ci\u003ePacific Rim.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShiuhhuah Serena Chou \u003c\/b\u003eis 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. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoyoung Kim \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Cinema Studies at Korea National University of Arts, South Korea, and Director of Trans: Asia Screen Culture Institute. She is author of \u003ci\u003eKorean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster, Trans-Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWhen the Nikita Moon Rose\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eBeat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He teaches literature, cultural studies, and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49830346752248,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":313.32,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9783031040467-1.jpg?v=1783772142","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9783031040467","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}