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Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

Karen Thornber
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  • Contents

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Conventions
  • Introduction: Environments, Environmental Ambiguities, and Literatures
    • Changing Environments
    • Environmental Ambiguity
    • Environments of Literature
    • Changing Environments of Literature
    • Ecoambiguity
  • One / Environmental Degradation and Literature in East Asia
    • Environmental Degradation in China
    • Chinese Literature and Environmental Degradation
    • Environmental Degradation in Preindustrial Korea and Japan
    • Environmental Degradation in Modern Japan
    • Japanese Literature and Environmental Degradation
    • Environmental Degradation in Modern Korea
    • Korean Literature and Environmental Degradation
    • Environmental Degradation in Taiwan
    • Taiwanese Literature and Environmental Degradation
  • Part I
    • Two / Accentuating Ambivalence
      • Ambivalence
      • Reconceptualizing Use
        • Suffering Worlds
        • Threatened Worlds
        • Disappearing Worlds
      • Protesting Protection
      • Navigating Disparate Attitudes
    • Three / Underlining Uncertainty
      • Informational Ambiguity
      • The Unknown and Unknowable
      • Making Sense of Symptoms
      • Assessing Damage
      • Assessing Collateral Nonhuman Damage
      • Questioning Nonhuman Resilience
      • Ambiguous Futures
    • Four / Capitalizing on Contradiction
      • Determining Cause, Assessing Accountability
        • Among People
        • Necessity and Accountability
        • Human, Nonhuman, or Both
      • Contradictions: Trading Off
        • Decreasing Human Numbers, Helping Environments
        • Increasing Human Numbers, Harming People and Environments
        • Helping Environments, Harming Environments
      • Assessing Assessments of Behaviors
        • Standards
        • Physical Standards
        • Social and Temporal Standards
  • Part II
    • Five / Acquiescing
      • Myopia and Myopic Hyperopia
      • Accepting Environmental Degradation
      • Necessity, Compulsion, and Actively Damaging Environments
      • Denying Disavowals
      • Arresting Behaviors
    • Six / Illusions and Delusions
      • Physically and Conceptually Manipulating Environments
      • Gaping Chasms
      • Signifying Indifference
      • Culture, Civilization, and Damaged Environments
    • Seven / Green Paradoxes
      • Injurious Fascination
      • Admiring ecosystems, Longing for Control
      • Green Hypocrisy
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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Published: 2012
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472118069 (hardcover)
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