Petr 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.
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 Benescaron;rsquo;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