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OverviewEnvironmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature focuses on a wide range of conceptions, depictions, and issues of environmental (in)justice found in African American, Latinx, Asian American, and American Indian literature to provide a panorama of ethnic peoples, regions, and cultures historically affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and racial discrimination, now exacerbated by the effects of climate change. In particular, the volume highlights the capacity of literature and literary criticism to help uncover the causes and consequences of different instances of environmental injustice and their impact. The chapters analyze a diverse selection of voices and texts, which underscore how the literary imagination of ethnic American writers captures, especially in contrast with official statistics and often impersonal data and the reports compiled from them, the tangible and often inescapable problems of communities struggling against environmental racism. The particular issues addressed in the volume range from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice, to agrarianism, while utilizing theoretical lenses such as ecofeminist paradigms or innovative applications of ecolinguistic methods to poetry. Overall, the monograph brings to the fore a diversity of literary responses to environmental racism and calls for environmental justice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Petr Kopecký , Jan Beneš , Petr Kopecký , Jan BenešPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic ISBN: 9781666919004ISBN 10: 1666919004 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 15 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnicity and Environmental (In)Justice in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues 2. Senses Lost: Environmental (In)justice in California Chicanx Writing 3. Animal Colonialism in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats 4. Desert Law: Language and Environmental (In)justice in the Poetry of Ofelia Zepeda 5. Braiding Indigenous Women’s Environmental Knowledge 6. The Black Agrarian Novel: Environmental Justice in Natalie Baszile’s Queen Sugar 7. The Story of Two Houses: An Ecofeminist Reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Home About the ContributorsReviews""At a time of planetary-scale ecological crisis, Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature is an urgent call to consider the Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian American voices that narrate this crisis from within. At the same time an important scholarly endeavour and a call for solidarity across geographical and cultural divides, Petr Kopeck and Jan Benes's edited monograph assists in the important work of turning ecocriticism into a vehicle for social justice. By doing so, it brings attention to often marginalized and dismissed American stories of unfolding environmental upheaval, while also helping to shift the field of ecocriticism away from the Euro-American perspectives that have long been predominant within the discipline."" --Johan Höglund, professor of English, Linnaeus University, author of the American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures Author InformationPetr Kopecký is associate professor in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Ostrava. Jan Beneš is assistant professor of American and British Literature at the University of Ostrava. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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