Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

Thornber, Karen

Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

Karen Thornber

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Acknowledgments
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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

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9780472118069 (hardcover)

Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

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