Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780820368320
ISBN-13 : 0820368326
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Download or read book Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction written by Chitra Sankaran and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.


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