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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.
Contents
Introduction.-Part One.-Human-Nature Coevolution and Ecomedia.-1. -Biodiversity Restoration and Coevolution in Shuang Chimu's "My Family and Other Evolving Animals".-2-. "Experiential Seeing".-Embodied Encounters in Speculative Fiction in China and East Asia.-3.- "It's also of our Pig-Basket Grass clan".- The Prospect of Kin-Making in Kuei-hsing Chang's Monkey Cup.-Part Two.-Technologies and the East Asian Heritages.-4. -The Cold Eyes of Karma.-Myth and Rationality in Chinese Science Fiction.-5.-Labor Ecologies and Roboticization in the Fiction of Hiroko Oyamada and Pabsi Livmar.-6.- Cyborg Lovers in Chinese Science Fiction.-7.- Posthuman Sexualities in in Natsuko Mori's "Pet Boy" and "Unmoral Contraption".-Part Three.- Posthuman Ecology.-8. -Sinking into Posthuman Inhumanity and Death.-Warnings from Chinese Science Fiction.-9.- Fourth Space.- Kin-Making against Capitalist Modernity in Post-Socialist China.-10. -"Making Kin" and "Imhumanism" in Chinese Science Fiction on Chen Qiufan's The Post Human Age (2018).-11. -Korean Kinship Traditions and the Global Anthropocene.- "Woori-ism" in Choyeop Kim'sThe Greenhouse at the End of the Earth.
