Includes bibliographical references and index

An introduction to Southeast Asian ecocriticism / John Charles Ryan -- Ecocriticism, hermeneutics, and the vanishing elephants of Thailand / Ignasi Ribo ́-- Filipino ecological imagination : Typhoon Yolanda, climate change, and imperialism in Philippine poetry and prose / Jeffrey Santa Ana -- Imaging indigenous relationships with nature : the case of Igorot music videos / Jason Paolo R. Telles -- Terror, narrative, and ecology in Merlinda Bobis's novel Fish-hair woman / Chitra Sankaran -- Environmental consciousness in the ecopoetry of Angkarn Chanthatip : a reading of Sieng sontana jaak panang tham from Hua jai hong tee ha (The fifth chamber of the heart) / Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng -- Sense of place and nostalgia for homeland in Rewat Phanphiphat's poetry / Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon -- From padauk to hyacinth : literary botany, the agency of plants, and the contemporary poetry of Myanmar / John Charles Ryan -- Listening to nature, rethinking the past : a reading of the representations of forests and rivers in post-war Vietnamese narratives / Tran Ngoc Hieu and Dang Thi Thai Ha -- Sowing seeds : phytocriticism and the botanical dimensions of Indonesian literature for children and young adults / Richard Li and John Charles Ryan -- Transnational paradigm : teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony in Thailand / Wasinrat Nualsiri -- Economics, ecology, and desire : delineations of Formosa and neighboring Southeast Asian countries in three nineteenth-century travelers' natural histories / Lu Liru -- Epilogue : Ziggy Stardust and the Irrawaddy dolphin : prospects for a transboundary ecocriticism in Southeast Asia / John Charles Ryan