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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Margherita Long Abstract This essay introduces three works of post-Fukushima Japanese literature, by Hayashi Kyoko (1930–2017), Kimura Yusuke (1970–) and Kobayashi Erika (1978–), to offer an environmental humanities alternative to Giorgio Agamben's response to COVID-19. Politically, Hayashi...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... becomes a channel for strands of tradition that, consciously or unconsciously, sustain and help create ideas of being in emerging social and environmental contexts. The poems juxtaposed below exemplify imagery of souls in various bodies, human and nonhuman, that have become entwined within the expressive...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... neoliberal economy that lays the only realistic foundation for such a totality, albeit under negative circumstances. This economy has caused a rapid environmental deterioration that involves everyone on the planet, regardless of identity. Human beings are left with just two choices: either collectively forge...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... avant-garde artists, Chai accepts the scientific view of nature as external, quantifiable, and measurable and heightens it with a sense of toxic consciousness. Hence, while toxic consciousness-raising helps address one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time, it furthers a nature-human...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ban Wang Abstract Contemporary environmental crises have their origin in the anthropocentric view of humans as separable from and superior to the natural world. Anthropocentrism also marks the realist author of modern Chinese fiction. Departing from that human-centered view, Shen Congwen's work...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to environmental politics. Such works engage with philosophical antihumanisms that attempt to deconstruct the human/animal binary without advocating for the type of humanist ethical universal advocated by the utilitarians. As such, posthumanist discourse as a cultural studies project involves assembling archives...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., or milieu) can be traced back as far as the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE). My intervention is derived from its modern incarnations as evinced by Watsuji Tetsurô’s 和辻哲郎 (1889–1960) Fûdo: Ningengakuteki kôsatsu 風土: 人間学的考察 (Milieus: A Study of the Human Linkage, 1935), as well as the French environmental...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... through this process are themselves thoroughly hybrid and heterogeneous entities. The human body, for instance, is actually teeming with microorganisms, some of which are benign while others, such as gut flora, are virtually essential to human survival. In fact, as Stefanie Fishel notes, the Human...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... this by contrasting organic and internal worlds: “Environmental issues and problems in the organic world are due to impurities in the internal or non-organic world. Human greed is unlimited—but the environment is limited—and Buddhist teachings try to regulate this.” 39 In general, Mandumai's eco-literature...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to let even one species out of the millions on Earth go extinct. That is, let me add quickly, with an extremely few exceptions. I'd vote for the eradication of the aforementioned lice (the gravamen against them: limited to humans, serious skin pests, threats to quality of life, carriers of disease). —E...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and was too busy to see his family. Lu Xun's retelling of the legend is concerned with environmental calamities and human agency to alter nature to protect communities from harm's way. Yet similar to “Bu tian,” the story depicts a social ecology dominated by the hypocritical gentry and bureaucratic hierarchy...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the meeting up of two or more parties (entities) and the negotiation of human relationships, as well as the delimiting of ecological and even cosmological boundaries, “entanglement” points to the taxonomy of the causes and consequences of said encounter, and more, the rhizomic relations, potentialities...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and allegorizing such a commodity to arrive at other possible human relations. 12 Second, I use ecologies as a method for writing literary history. Rather than choosing texts that discuss environmental changes and writers' responses to resultant social phenomena, I instead argue that ecological thinking has...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... her mantle as the sifter and sorter of garbage. This missing human figure matters, in part because waste is always about people—and their absence from aesthetic space suggests that art is responding to a felt sense that personhood is coming under assault as basic life sureties fray. But this essay...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... In their eyes, liberals traffic in an unreconstructed language of democracy, human rights, civil society, and progress and are insufficiently critical of America's domestic inequities and neoimperialist adventures overseas. As such, they are unwitting bedfellows with conservatives steeped in Cold War mentality...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... . “ Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii .” In Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame , edited by Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman , 138 – 67 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Wald, Priscilla...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as “human barbecue” ( renrou shaokao 人肉燒烤) (125). In a figurative sense, the animal incapable of reproduction represents the Naxi people who are deprived of their dignity, symbolizing the end of their cultural heritage. Besides, it is no longer humans playing the music, but robots, machines without values...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
... oneself and warding off danger, and commemorating a human life—and in the political notion of solidarity not just across generations but between strangers, with one who dies giving one who lives on a tool for livelihood (pickaxe), self-protection (cane), and an expression of community (grave marker...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., or environmental circumstances, or lured by China's agricultural wealth or opportunities for trade,” a situation that led to “repeated mutual adaptations of countless groups and individuals across plastic intermediate zones.” 20 Within this milieu, the potential “threat” of ethnic others becomes submerged...
