Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.
Informed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls “Beijing Westerns” with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies.
By centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.
"Groundbreaking . . . Visser’s breathtaking scope is both incredibly ambitious and highly effective. One of the most significant contributions of Questioning Borders is its systematic examination, for the first time in English-language scholarship, of authors writing about nature from less-studied ethnic groups in the field of modern Chinese literature." - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"At once a groundbreaking scholarly investigation and an affecting call to arms, Questioning Borders engages with questions of inter-imperiality, border ecology, and Indigenous ecoliterature, and does so rigorously and fearlessly." - Chinese Literature and Thought Today
"Makes significant contributions to the fields of Chinese, Taiwan, ecocritical, and ethnic studies by interrogating the formation and function of both lived and disciplinary borders." - Journal of Asian Studies
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Informed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls “Beijing Westerns” with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies.
By centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.
"Groundbreaking . . . Visser’s breathtaking scope is both incredibly ambitious and highly effective. One of the most significant contributions of Questioning Borders is its systematic examination, for the first time in English-language scholarship, of authors writing about nature from less-studied ethnic groups in the field of modern Chinese literature." - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"At once a groundbreaking scholarly investigation and an affecting call to arms, Questioning Borders engages with questions of inter-imperiality, border ecology, and Indigenous ecoliterature, and does so rigorously and fearlessly." - Chinese Literature and Thought Today
"Makes significant contributions to the fields of Chinese, Taiwan, ecocritical, and ethnic studies by interrogating the formation and function of both lived and disciplinary borders." - Journal of Asian Studies
Формат: Скан PDf
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