Petromodernity, petro-finance and plastic in Karen Tei Yamashita’sThrough the Arc of the Rainforest

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We are the world (but only at the end of the world): Race, disaster, and the Anthropocene

“…One comes from the perspective of Asian American studies and the ways in which globalization has impacted race and ethnic identities, including generative discussions of whether the book itself is Asian American, and what is gained or lost in that claim (Chen, 2004; Chuh, 2006; Lee, 1999; Rody, 2000; Song, 2011). The other can be categorized as a focus on the novel’s preoccupations with environmentalism and ecology (De Loughry, 2017; Heise, 2004; Jain, 2016; Simal, 2010; Wallace, 2000). Rachel Lee’s (2014) recent work, on race and biosociality in Asian American studies, perhaps offers a way to bridge these two camps, to think about race and ecology together.…”