Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries [Hardcover]

Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundariesexplores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigenous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativity of contemporary literature, art, music, drama, film, and other media. This book expands and enriches Southeast Asian ecocritical scholarship by incorporating posthumanist and new materialist perspectives. Across twelve chapters, this volume explicitly engages with Southeast Asian texts, cultural practices, and environmental issues from the broadly conceived theoretical framework of posthuman ecocriticism. They provide a uniquely inflected perspective on the literary, multimedia, and artistic dimensions of contemporary nature-cultures in Southeast Asia, as part of a concerted effort to disclose the complex entanglements of humans and nonhumans across the region.This book explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region.Ignasi Rib?is associate professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University.

The pathbreaking volumePosthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries, edited by Ignasi Rib?, offers a rare insight into ways in which various literary and cultural texts across Southeast Asia negotiate the relatively new terrain of posthumanism through an ecocritical lens. The book is unique in thoughtfully combining Anglo-American theory with analysis of hitherto unavailable narratives accessed from native Southeast Asian languages. lc