Acknowledgements Preface: Out of the Ruins Macarena Gómez-Barris Introduction Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing PART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez 1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong''s The Disinherited Jeffrey Santa Ana 2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space Kathleen Gutierrez 3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films Chitra Sankaran 4 "If We Return We Will Learn:" Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New Guinea John Charles Ryan PART II: Militarized Environments Nuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez 5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy''s The Gangster We Are All Looking For Emily Cheng 6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire Heidi Amin-Hong 7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination Zhou Xiaojing PART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance Praise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez 8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\ohakuloa Rebecca Hogue 9 "Disentrancing" the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry Rina Garcia Chua 10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature Tihan Chang PART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities Age of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez 11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee 12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha Emalani Case 13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli Artists Chad Shomura Afterword: "A New Way Beyond the Darkness" Priscilla Wald Contributors Index.