Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature

Herausgeber: Benes, Jan; Kopecky, Petr

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing issues from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice or agrarianism and employing a wide range of ecolinguistics approaches, this volume brings to the fore a diversity of literary responses by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and American Indian writers to environmental injustices and their impact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781666919004
• ISBN-10: 1666919004
• Artikelnr.: 71660777

Autorenporträt

Petr Kopecký is associate professor in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Ostrava. Jan Bene is assistant professor of American and British Literature at the University of Ostrava.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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 Contributors