Dear Colleagues,

We take great pleasure in announcing the publication of the March 2024 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. The special issue, “Transcultural Thought and the Planetary Emergency,” is guest edited by Professor Hannes Bergthaller and Professor Yen-ling Tsai. This special issue features five research articles, along with one research article covering general topics and one book review. All articles are available on our website; for more information please visit http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/.

Sincerely,
Joan Chiung-huei Chang
Editor
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 50 No. 1 (March 2024)
Special Issue “Transcultural Thought and the Planetary Emergency”
Guest Editors: Hannes Bergthaller and Yen-ling Tsai

Introduction
Introduction: Transcultural Thought and the Planetary Emergency / Hannes Bergthaller and Yen-ling Tsai

Articles
The Challenge of Transculturality in the Era of the Misanthropocene / Jean-Yves Heurtebise

“Because the bees buzz underground, / we have earthquakes”: Chen Li’s The Edge of the Island at the Brink of the Anthropocene Ruin / Li-hsin Hsu

Heterotemporality and Posthumanism in Alternative Futurisms / Michael Boyden

Ecocide, Hybrid Landscapes and Transcultural Fluidity in Gary Snyder’s Danger on Peaks / Tomasz Sawczuk

Landscape Renewal, Multispecies Networks, and Environmental Change: Ritual Practice by the Amis as Reaction to Planetary Emergency / Yi-tze Lee

Literary and Cultural Criticism
“Woful Custance”: Female Sanctity and the Poetics of Pity in The Man of Law’s Tale / Yu-Ching Wu

Reviews
Revisiting Taiwanese Anthro-Botanical Relationships / Scott Slovic