Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia

Rethinking the Human

251 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and ethical responsibilities, seeking to fill a major lacuna in previous academic literature around ecocriticism in speculative fiction. Contributions are thematically organized into three sections—Human-Nature Co-evolution and Ecomedia, Technologies and East Asian Heritage, and Posthuman Ecology. Chapter authors draw on global viewpoints to provide a multi-dimensional analysis that includes Indigenous knowledge, trans-local (inter-Asian) exchanges, and perspectives from the Global South. To end, the book provides a reflection on how speculative fiction promotes a vision of interconnected kinship among humans, the nonhuman, and the natural world.

• Reihe: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9783032119865
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2026
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Xinmin Liu, Hua Li