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.
| ISBN: | 9781666919028 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 2026 |
| Author: | Petr Kopecký, Jan Benes, Petr Kopecký, Jan Benes, Miroslav Cerný, Parisa Changizi, Martina Horáková, Stanislav Kolár, Denisa Krásná |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 196 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Environmentalist thought and ideology |
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.
Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Environmentalist thought and ideology
Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature is available in Paperback
Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature was written by Petr Kopecký, Jan Benes, Petr Kopecký, Jan Benes, Miroslav Cerný, Parisa Changizi, Martina Horáková, Stanislav Kolár, Denisa Krásná and published by Lexington Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature has 196 pages
Yes it is part of Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
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