Posthuman Southeast Asia

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Ignasi Ribó is associate professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University.

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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.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Posthuman Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia Ignasi Ribó

Chapter 1: Cultivating Botanical Wisdom: Durian Narratives and the Plant Posthumanities John Charles Ryan

Chapter 2: A Phyto-Investigation of Banana and Papaya in Contemporary Indonesian Poems Henrikus Joko Yulianto

Chapter 3: "Not Becoming-Human, What Am I-Becoming, O Tree?": On Nguy n Bình Ph ng's Posthuman Poetics Tran Ngoc Hieu and Tran Hoang Kieu Trang

Chapter 4: Formosan Multispecies Ethnographies: Life Accounts of Rock Monkeys in Robert Swinhoe Li-Ru Lu

Chapter 5: Agent Orange and the Exposed Bodies of Vietnam: Trans-Corporeal Abjection and Embodied Difference Reshma Sanil and Rashmi Gaur

Chapter 6: Transcending the Anthropocene: Ecology and the Posthuman in Southeast Asian Fictions Paloma Chaterji

Chapter 7: Vulnerability and Precarity in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl: A Posthumanist Reading Soorya Alex

Chapter 8: The Environment as Kapwa: Decentering the Self Through the Exploration of Human and More-than-human Entanglements in Hiligaynon Ecopoetry Maria Anjelica Wong and Antonio D. Salazar Jr.

Chapter 9: Theatre of Animals and Gods: Zoo Animals Perform to Educate Catherine Diamond

Chapter 10: Posthuman Ecoscapes: Synthetic Materiality and Distributed Cognition in Southeast Asian Animation Nathan Snow

Chapter 11: Post-Marxism and the Pluriverse: Antagonism and Heterogeneity in More-than-human Worlds Min Seong Kim

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