East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
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东亚生态批评：批判性读者
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10.1093/isle/isu112
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2014
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Christine L. Marran
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作者：
Christine L. Marran
《东亚生态批评：一个批评性的读者》的编辑试图通过提供东亚文学的新视角来扩大生态批评的利害关系。他们的介绍使用“我们与他们”的逻辑框架的卷的相关性，其中“我们”包括那些谁住在东亚和“他们”包括那些谁不（2）。幸运的是，这本书中的文章在关于环境文学的跨学科和理论文章中大多避开了任何这样的“我们”。大多数的贡献者与非东亚的文本和理论同样工作。许多人在东亚以外接受过培训，他们的专业知识远远超出了他们的居住地或他们的主题的原始背景和语言。笔者很高兴能了解到这些学者的研究成果，并不是因为他们身处东亚，而是因为他们对本书的关键问题有着深刻的见解：特定的环境概念是如何、何时以及为何传播的？什么时候有必要从国家的角度来审视生态批评话语？文化在生态批评中的作用是什么？我们如何通过对东亚文化生产的分析来批判性地评估英美生态批评中出现的许多生态批评概念？东亚的生态批评偶尔会被笼统地声称整个亚洲都有广泛的非历史传统的说法所破坏（81，172）。在大多
The editors of East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader seek to broaden the stakes for ecocriticism by providing new perspectives on literature in East Asia. Their introduction frames the relevance of the volume using an “us-versus-them” logic where “us” includes those who live in East Asia and “them” includes those who do not (2). Fortuitously, the essays in the volume mostly eschew any such “we” in their interdisciplinary and theoretical essays on environmental literature. The majority of the contributors work equally with non-East Asian texts and theory. Many have trained outside of East Asia, and their expertise goes far beyond their residence or the original context and language of their subject. This reviewer is grateful to learn about these scholars' work not because they are in East Asia, but because they have insight into precisely what is at stake for this volume: how, when, and why do particular environmental concepts circulate? When is it necessary to examine ecocritical discourse from a national perspective? What is the role of culture in ecocriticism? How can we critically assess the many ecocritical concepts that have emerged in Anglo-American ecocriticism through analysis of East Asian cultural production? East Asian Ecocriticisms is occasionally marred by generalities that claim a broad ahistorical tradition for all of Asia (81, 172). For the most