Emerging from the Rubble: Asian/American Writings on Disasters

“Emerging from the Rubble” is a sincere, erudite, and critical engagement with the history of our environmental crisis from the vantage point of transpacific Asian/American culture. With theoretical finesse and historical groundedness, the volume curates a set of wide-ranging essays to crack open the secretive linkage between imperial, colonial, racial, and environmental violence, and shows how the environmental crisis, while global in scale, is often racially and geographically specific. Calling for a reckoning with our precarity in the era of Capitalocene, it rewrites and advances the eco-critical scholarship from the nuclear fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the eco-horror in Vietnam to the dystopia of escaping the pandemic where survival must be the task of the humanities.

Prof. Chih-ming Wang

Institute of European and American studies, Taiwan

From the corroded edges of empire and the deep-seated rust of a world remade by disaster, this collection echoes with Asian American voices. It's a lyrical unveiling of quiet strength, navigating landscapes scarred by capital's relentless tide and the profound human cost of our intertwined fates.

Prof. Shin Yamashiro

The University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan