Abstract
Thornber, Karen. 2012. Ecoambiguity: environmental crises and East Asian literatures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Reviewed by Edwin A. Schmitt
Highlights
Karen Thornber's Ecoambiguity: environmental crises and East Asian literatures is a massive undertaking by a first-rate scholar
In Huang Chunming's 'Set free' Thornber provides some of the political context regarding how residents of Dakenggu attempt to cope with industrial pollution from nearby chemical factories
Political ecology could gain a great deal from drawing on material found in creative literature to ensure that our political economy is robust enough to capture the sociological imagination of the non-human world that is well described by Thornber's idea of ecological ambiguity
Summary
Karen Thornber's Ecoambiguity: environmental crises and East Asian literatures is a massive undertaking by a first-rate scholar. Cho Sehŭi's story 'City of machines' provides a stark example of industrial workers who feel that "nothing can be done" about the massive amount of pollution they are exposed to everyday in the factories where they work.
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