Places and Landscapes: An Ecocritical Study of Gao Xingjian's Fiction

Zusatztext

The book provides a comprehensive study of Chinese 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Gao Xingjian and his literary works. The representation of the physical landscape in Gaos writings is connected with a strong sense of environmental consciousness. The book would re-read Gao Xingjians texts applying contemporary theories of ecocriticism and oriental philosophy on nature and ecology like Daoism. It explores Gao Xingjians perspective and views on humans as part of nature. This book further attempts to offer viable alternatives to thinking and reconstituting ecocritical ideas and representations in Gao Xingjian and to evaluate them in terms of their coherence and usefulness as responses to environmental crisis.

Autorenportrait

Anurag Bhattacharyya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam (India). He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati in 2013 in the field of Ecocriticism. He has contributed immensely towards the development of Gao Xingjian studies by publishing his papers in journals and books.

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