Empire and Environment

Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University.Heidi Amin-Hong is Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara.Rina Garcia Chua is a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.Zhou Xiaojing is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Out of the RuinsMacarena Gómez-Barris Introduction Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing PART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez 1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong’s The DisinheritedJeffrey Santa Ana2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space Kathleen Gutierrez 3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films Chitra Sankaran4 “If We Return We Will Learn:” Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New GuineaJohn Charles RyanPART II: Militarized EnvironmentsNuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez 5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking ForEmily Cheng 6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire Heidi Amin-Hong7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination Zhou XiaojingPART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous ResistancePraise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez 8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\ōhakuloa Rebecca Hogue9 “Disentrancing” the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry Rina Garcia Chua10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese LiteratureTihan ChangPART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological FuturitiesAge of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez 11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha Emalani Case13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American andKanaka Maoli ArtistsChad ShomuraAfterword: “A New Way Beyond the Darkness”Priscilla Wald ContributorsIndex

“Empire and Environment is an important volume with scholarship of the highest quality that will be valuable to scholars and graduate and undergraduate students. The book puts into conversation interdisciplinary and transnational writers, activists, and poetry. The range of artists and scholars gathered together allow for coverage of diverse interests, disciplines, and geographies. It also makes for a dynamic read and will appeal to a variety of readers.”