“Yoneko’s Earthquake” is a masterpiece among the short stories by Japanese American writer Hisaye Yamamoto, and it reflects plight tragedy of women. The plot story seemingly simple but profound, especially design underlying text, which full ingenuity. From perspective postcolonial ecocriticism, Yamamoto’s complicity colonialism ecologism in many aspects. Take close look at natural images (the d...

This article is about whalesongs, hearing, musical brains, and a number of other topics explored over the past 35 years. Previous research is reviewed briefly, and more attention is given to recent efforts with an emphasis on collaborative research conducted with many wonderful colleagues. First is a brief account of the Institute for Music Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio, fo...

Material ecocriticism, representing a material turn in ecocritical studies, is faithfully committed to undermine the anthropocentric ideology of humans’ superiority over natural environment and reconfigures human nonhuman beings as materially entangled entities whose stories well physical bodies are interwoven together. What essentially emphasized by theory indistinguishable relatedness coexist...