Empire and Environment

Acknowledgements
Preface: Out of the Ruins
Macarena Gomez-Barris
Introduction
Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing

PART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific
from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez
1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and
Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong's The Disinherited
Jeffrey Santa Ana
2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space
Kathleen Gutierrez
3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films
Chitra Sankaran
4 "If We Return We Will Learn:" Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge
in Papua New Guinea
John Charles Ryan

PART II: Militarized Environments
Nuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez
5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy's
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Emily Cheng
6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire
Heidi Amin-Hong
7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination
Zhou Xiaojing
PART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance
Praise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez
8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\ohakuloa
Rebecca Hogue
9 "Disentrancing" the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry
Rina Garcia Chua
10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese
Literature
Tihan Chang

PART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities
Age of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez
11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee
12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha
Emalani Case
13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and
Kanaka Maoli Artists
Chad Shomura

Afterword: "A New Way Beyond the Darkness"
Priscilla Wald
Contributors
Index

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• Ecologia aplicada
• Estudos literários: geral
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Colonialism;postcolonialism;environment;climate change;extinction;Anthropocene;migration;global capitalism;extraction;botany;empire;ocean studies;militarism;gender and sexuality;race and racialization;Asia;Southeast Asia;Pacific Ocean;the Americas;Asian Americans;Pacific Islanders;Indigenous people and indigeneity;visual studies;environmental humanities;poetry;poetics