Revenge of Gaia: Contemporary Vietnamese Ecofiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789814954822)

Chi Pham (Ph.D.) is a tenure-researcher at the Institute of Literature in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). Her dissertation, her researcher articles and conference presentations delve examine Vietnamese literature and politics. Of late, Chi has become increasingly interested in the field of literature and environment; she was the Chair of the organising committee of the second ASLE-ASEAN conference in Hanoi (January 2018), for which she put together the call for paper. Chi's native knowledge of Vietnamese culture and literature will add a dimension of authenticity.

Chitra Sankaran (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, NUS. Her research interests include South and Southeast Asian fiction, feminist theory and ecocriticism. In 2012 she published with SUNY Press, History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction. Her other publications include monographs, edited volumes on Asian Literatures, chapters in books and research articles in IRJs including Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ARIEL, Theatre Research International, Journal of South Asian Literature, Australian Feminist Studies and Critical Asian Studies. She is an invited contributor to the Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHNE) series. She is currently working on ecofeminism in South Asian and Southeast Asian fictions

Tran Duy Phien (1942-) is an author of a numerous novels and short stories that were published under the collapsed Republic of Vietnam (1954-1975) and the present-day Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Some of them are Đốt lửa sau m?y (long story, 1969) Trước khi mặt trời mọc (collection of stories, 1972), Trăm năm c?n lại (novel, 1996), Kiến v? Người (collection of stories, 1996), Ngược d?ng ph? hoa (collection of stories, 1997), Chim trong th?nh qu?ch cũ (collection of stories), 2003.

Nguyen Minh Chau (1930-1989) was a military author who identified himself to write to serve the nation's nationalist and socialist revolutions. He was the first author who criticized the socialist realism of Vietnam, calling for a reform of the national literature. Some of his works are: Cửa song (novel, 1966), D?́u ch?n người lính (novel, 1972), Mi?̀n cháy (novel,1977), Người đàn bà tr?n chuy?́n tàu t?́c hành (short story, 1983), Bến qu? (short story, 1985).

Trần Trung Ch?nh (1953-) is the author of many short stories, most of which were published in Lao Dong newspaper and Song Huong magazine (1989-1992). The short story Black Carp, included in his anthology Cư tr? (2006), is often quoted by Vietnamese scholars as a typical ecofiction of Vietnam.

Ho?ng Tố Mai (1972-) is an author and an ecocritic of Vietnam. Some of her works are Nắng nhạt ơi nắng nhạt (collection of short stories, 2002), Thực đơn m?y trắng (collection of short stories, 2017), and Ph? b?nh sinh th?i l? g? (collection of key texts in ecocriticism that were translated into Vietnamese in 2017).

Y Ban (1961-) is the author of five collections of short stories, the first of which, Người đ?n b? c? ma lực: truyện ngắn (collection of stories), won second prize in a national writing competition in 1993. She has also had seventy stories published in anthologies. Two of her books, I am Woman (2006) and N?y hỏi thật đ? thấy g? chưa đấy? (2011), were banned after publication in Vietnam.

Nguyễn Ngọc Tư (1976-) is a short story writer and novelist from the southern province C? Mau in the Mekong Delta. She has received various awards, including the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2008 and the Vietnam Writers' Association Award for her most famous work C?nh đồng bất tận (2006). C?nh đồng bất tận has been translated into Korean, Swedish, English, and German. The first collection of her stories in English, entitled Floating Lives, was published in 2012.