TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannes Bergthaller
AU  - You-ting Chen
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2365-645X
SN  - 9783631853184
TI  - Foodscapes of the Anthropocene
T2  - Literary Perspectives from Asia
DO  - 10.3726/b18340
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1288764
N2  - One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only upended traditional lifeways around the world but also continue to play a key role in climate change, biodiversity loss, and various other processes that are transforming the Earth system – now rendering food production increasingly precarious. Nowhere have these changes been more dramatic or consequential than in Asia. The essays in this volume examine how literary works from the Asian continent have responded to the profound changes in the region’s foodscapes. They cover poetry, prose fiction, and literary non-fiction from China, India, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
KW  - environmental humanities, food, foodscape, Anthropocene, critical food studies, ecocriticism
LA  - English
ER  -