Global Plastic

In the essay “Local Rock And Global Plastic: World Ecology And The Experience Of Place,” by Ursula K. Heise, she writes that, "the objective of this essay is to explore how literary texts negotiate the juncture between ecological globalism and localism and how, from a comparatist viewpoint, they link issues of global ecology with those of transnational culture," (Heise 126). This level of analysis, regarding the importance of world ecology and eco-friendly mindsets, finds refuge in the the basic principles of post colonialism mixed together with a few important points featured in marxism regarding alienation and consumerism. Where colonialism represents the time period where the great empires of the twentieth century began cutting portions

In conditions of modernity, place becomes increasingly phantasmagoric: that is to say, locales are thoroughly penetrated by and shaped in terms of social influences quite distant from them” (Heise 128). This process of lifting out of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their reconstructuring across the indefinite spans of time space is defined as disembedding. After a very accurate and clear summary of the events of Through The Arc of the Rainforest, Heise writes, “At first sight, this story sounds like a rather familiar one: a valuable natural resource is discovered in a remote Third-World locale, multinational corporations and media move in, and as a consequence local ecosystems and social communities are laid to waste, (Heise). This is where the ideas of marxism come into play in Heise’s analysis of the novel; as the natural phenomenon of the Matacao accumulates importance to the surrounding community, and eventually the world world, the Matacao, like everything in a capitalist society, becomes a commodity. All of the passion centered around this commodity slowly drives the creators, the main characters of the novel, to separate themselves and slowly become depressed by the end of the novel. The limitations of this idea are found in basis of the argument. The thesis of this argument basically tackles the idea that the imperialist or nationalist have any stake or say in how the world is used. This essay argues that the collective world should own

By examining this particular novel's relationship to these overlapping, yet also contestatory, interpretive rubrics, I hope to shed light not only on two salient notions of community formation that continually vie for hegemony in the field of Asian American studies,” (Lee 235). In this analysis, Lee focuses heavily on the building blocks of postcolonial theory in regards to the Asian Pacific while dissecting the novel Through The Arc of the Rainforest. Unlike Heise, who argued primarily that the colonial and neocolonial agendas were negative to mankind through means of environmental destruction, Lee argues that that the industrialization of the Asian Pacific dramatically and negatively affects the chosen paradigm, or model, that the native asians and american asians follow. Similarly to Heise, the principles of marxism play a part in the colonialism, as marxism stands to criticize the capitalist mindset that drives colonialism to begin with. There is a fallacy created in the process of neocolonialism; for a collection of nationalist banning together to recreate themselves in a self describe image that only mirrors the oppressor in hindsight, the question that begs to be answered: why does this happen. Lee seems to suggest