Expansionist Ethnic Ecology: On Reading Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem

Howard Y. F. Choy*

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    Abstract

    This chapter criticizes how the novel Wolf Totem promotes an expansionist worldview for the rights of the fittest race and re-enacts through the cult of the Mongolian animalistic spirit the colonization of the ethnic other with ecological fascism in the logic of the market law.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationChinese Shock of the Anthropocene
    Subtitle of host publicationImage, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change
    EditorsKwai-Cheung Lo, Jessica Yeung
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Chapter7
    Pages131–149
    Number of pages19
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9789811366857
    ISBN (Print)9789811366840, 9789811366864, 9789811366871
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8 May 2019

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