Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Petr Kopecký, Jan Beneš, Petr Kopecky, Jan Benes, Jan Bene

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Environmental 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 affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and racial discrimination, now exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Specifically, the volume highlights the capacity of literature and literary criticism to help uncover the causes and consequences of 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, in contrast with official statistics, impersonal data and the reports compiled from them, the tangible and often inescapable problems of communities struggling against environmental racism. The 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-15
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor210
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666919004

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ethnicity and Environmental (In)Justice in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues2. Senses Lost: Environmental (In)justice in California Chicanx Writing3. Animal Colonialism in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats4. Desert Law: Language and Environmental (In)justice in the Poetry of Ofelia Zepeda5. Braiding Indigenous Women’s Environmental Knowledge6. The Black Agrarian Novel: Environmental Justice in Natalie Baszile’s Queen Sugar7. The Story of Two Houses: An Ecofeminist Reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and HomeAbout the Contributors

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 Kopecky and Jan Beneš’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.