Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture

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<p>This collection opens the geospatiality of Asia into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this worlding process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.<b></b></p><br><p></p>

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<p><b>Shiuhhuah Serena Chou</b>is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include transpacific agricultural environmentalism, Asian American environmental literature, and medical-environmental humanities. She is author of numerous scholarly and creative publications on American organic farming literature and culture and gardens with her colleagues in her office rooftop farm.<b>&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Soyoung Kim</b>is Professor of Cinema Studies at Korea National University of Arts, South Korea, and Director of Trans: Asia Screen Culture Institute. She is author of<i>Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster, Trans-Cinema</i> (forthcoming) and has published numerous books in Korean on Postcolonial modernity, gender, and cinema. As a filmmaker, she directed Exile Trilogy set in Central Asia, Russia, and Korea and Women's History Trilogy. She taught at UC Berkeley andDuke University, USA, as a visiting professor.</p><p><b>Rob Wilson</b> received a doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where he was founding editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. He is author of a dual-language poetry book<i>When the Nikita Moon Rose</i> (2021) and<i>Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists</i> (2010). He teaches literature, cultural studies, and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.</p><br><p></p>

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