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This book offers a timely exploration of the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism and gives prominence to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors emphasize the transnational flows between Southeast Asian countries and Australia, England, Taiwan (Formosa), and the United States. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. An Introduction to Southeast Asian Ecocriticism -- Chapter Two. Ecocriticism, Hermeneutics, and the Vanishing Elephants of Thailand -- Chapter Three. Filipino Ecological Imagination: Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change, and Imperialism in Philippine Poetry and Prose -- Chapter Four. Imaging Indigenous Relationships with Nature: The Case of Igorot Music Videos -- Chapter Five. Terror, Narrative, and Ecology in Merlinda Bobis's: Novel Fish-Hair Woman -- Chapter Six. Environmental Consciousness in the Ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip: A Reading of "Sieng Sontana Jaak Panang Tham" from Hua Jai Hong Tee Ha (The Fifth Chamber of the Heart) -- Chapter Seven. Sense of Place and Nostalgia for Homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat's Poetry -- Chapter Eight. From Padauk to Hyacinth: Literary Botany, the Agency of Plants, and the Contemporary Poetry of Myanmar -- Chapter Nine. Listening to Nature, Rethinking the Past: A Reading of the Representationsof Forests and Rivers in Postwar Vietnamese Narratives -- Chapter Ten. Sowing Seeds: Phytocriticism and the Botanical Dimensions of Indonesian Literature for Children and Young Adults -- Chapter Eleven. Transnational Paradigm: Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony in Thailand -- Chapter Twelve. Economics, Ecology, and Desire: Delineations of Formosa and Neighboring Southeast Asian Countries in Three Nineteenth-Century Travelers' Natural Histories -- Epilogue. Ziggy Stardust and the Irrawaddy Dolphin: Prospects for a Transboundary Ecocriticism in Southeast Asia -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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