The "Strange Graft" and "Sumptuous Garden" of Marilyn Chin's Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen

Abstract

Abstract:Marilyn Chin's Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, an innovative contemporary American text, acts as a kind of literary palimpsest that inspires an ecocritical lens. Drawing on Zapf's premise of how literature is compared to an ecological force, I examine the role of nature, specifically the magical real manifestations of the natural world, and how it might shed light on reading race as an ecological force.