Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2019 

 

The Scale, Opportunity and Development of Postcolonial Eco-Criticism from a Post-Human Perspective

(Abstract)

 

Jiang Yuqin

 

As a crossover study of postcolonial criticism and eco-criticism, postcolonial eco-criticism reexamines global cultural politics and the ecological environment from a grant perspective, namely to understand the trajectory of Western ideas and the interrelation and interactions between culture, politics, ethics and individuals, races, environment, and nature from past to the present from a historical dimension. It also aims to take globalization theory as the axis to observe modernity, humanism, scientism, nationalism and other theoretical trends in contemporary society from the east to the west in the spatial dimension. The political, ethical and cultural dimensions of postcolonial eco-criticism have gradually demonstrated its  limitations and dilemmas of its dualism and have been constantly challenged. Through rethinking the new form of human and the relationship between man and the world in the post-human era, postcolonial eco-criticism will lead to the holistic post-human eco-criticism.