This edited collection of essays is a crucial and exciting contribution to ecocritical scholarship for many reasons.... Certainly, this timely and important anthology facilitates critical debates around Southeast Asian environmental issues and highlights the creative and innovative work of both mainstream and minority writers and thinkers who might otherwise remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. While ecocritics lament the lacuna in Southeast Asia where world ecocritical studies is concerned, especially with the prominence of studies on Indian and East Asian literatures, this book successfully addresses and fills that gap, hence fulfilling one of Ryan’s primary goals..... The other contributions in the book encompass a wide scope of topics, tropes and genres, ranging from forests and rivers to travelogues and children or young adult literature, adding grist to the mill. This, along with the meticulous insertion of cross-references between chapters in the interest of coherence, adds to the book’s many merits. All in all, this considered and insightful book is a landmark in ecocriticism and will doubtless draw critical attention to the environmental realities of Southeast Asia.

SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects is a welcome new addition to ecocritical (environmental criticism) scholarship, which has become a booming field but remains stubbornly focused on Western-language materials. Southeast Asia has been almost entirely neglected in the field, making this volume truly valuable.

Karen Thornber, Harvard University