FLUID SOLIDARITY: The Taoist and Indigenous Water Philosophies in Rita Wong's undercurrent.
To criticize exploiting water as an extractive resource and to provide an alternative way of engaging with water, I highlight the philosophical "undercurrents," the hidden threads of Taoism and Indigenous streams of thinking in Chinese Canadian poet Rita Wong's undercurrent (2015). Central to water-...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 49; pp. 84 - 108 |
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Kritika Kultura
Mar2026
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