This examination finally brings us an inconvenient truth about China’s environmental conundrum in which middle-class urban Han Chinese have always been granted superior status by the central government. Apart from the Chinese official discourse, we delve into three texts-Yan Lianke’s Streams of Light and Time (2009), Ma Jian’s The Dark Road (2013), and A Lai’s Empty Mountain (2005)-to illuminate that the marginalization of rural farmers and displaced ethnic minorities are key issues of environmental justice in contemporary Chinese literature. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.Ībstract: In this article, we argue that the issue of Chinese environmental justice occurs at three dimensions: transnationalism, class and ethnicity. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia.
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