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Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature

Petr Kopecký Jan Beneš Petr Kopecký Jan Beneš

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Lexington Books
15 December 2024
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.
Contributions by:   , ,
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   467g
ISBN:   9781666919004
ISBN 10:   1666919004
Series:   Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Pages:   210
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature

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


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