This article also makes a case for the diversification of local literary and cultural production to effectively reorient public narratives of the environment. To this end, I examine the ways in which nature and the supernatural are portrayed and how nonhuman agencies disrupt anthropocentric narration and reading. The Last Bastion Of Ingei: Imminent Series 4 primary works 4 total works Book 1 The Last Bastion of Ingei: Day 1 by Aammton Alias 3. Day 2 in the jungles of IngeiSet in a country in Southeast Asia, three conservation activists - who are unlikely friends - continue in their struggle to. EcoGothicnarratives can thus be seen as crucial representational models of anti-extractivism that reimagine human-nonhuman relations beyond anthropocentric epistemologies. It was written last November as part of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), an annual Internet-based creative writing project and is entirely unedited. Using a localized EcoGothiccritical framework, I argue that the novelreflectsIndigenous ecological beliefs and practices, wherein nature and the supernatural destabilize and undermine anthropocentric ways of knowing and relating to the nonhuman. Aammton Alias’ first offering, The Last Bastion of Ingei: Imminent, is meant to be Book 1 in a series. This article posits gothic depictions of the haunted forest as important counter-narratives to extractivist representations of nature in public narratives in Brunei, including government policy and advertising for environmental tourism.The critical discussion will focus on a contemporary Bruneian text, Aammton Alias’sThe Last Bastion of Ingei(2016).
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