environmental justice, ethnic American literature

Since this collective monograph studies diverse ethnic perspectives on phenomena related to environmental justice—exploring both the various forms that environmental injustices and burdens may take, as well as the solutions and strategies for environmental justice the authors creatively imagine and illustrate—the contributions apply diverse approaches to the literary texts under scrutiny. The issues addressed in the volume’s chapters range from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice, to agrarianism, as multiple chapters analyze texts depicting the lived experiences of farmers of color. The contributors also utilize for their analysis theoretical lenses such as innovative applications of ecolinguistic methods to poetry or long-standingparadigms in ecofeminism, without which “struggles for environmental justice . . . will not adequately understand [how] systems of oppression (such as racism, colonialism, gender discrimination, and environmental degradation) are interconnected and mutually reinforcing.”17 The gender and racial aspects of the analyses presented in this volume are especially pertinent given the fact that almost all of the contributions deal with texts written by and about women of color. The selection of voices and texts in this volume also offers a wide array in terms of genres (farm, immigrant, detective, and cli-fi novels, nature writing, poetry), time period (mid-twentieth century to the present) and status (from Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison to lesser-known, but still critically recognized authors such as Lucha Corpi and Ofelia Zepeda).

Since this collective monograph studies diverse ethnic perspectives on phenomena related to environmental justice—exploring both the various forms that environmental injustices and burdens may take, as well as the solutions and strategies for environmental justice the authors creatively imagine and illustrate—the contributions apply diverse approaches to the literary texts under scrutiny. The issues addressed in the volume’s chapters range from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice, to agrarianism, as multiple chapters analyze texts depicting the lived experiences of farmers of color. The contributors also utilize for their analysis theoretical lenses such as innovative applications of ecolinguistic methods to poetry or long-standingparadigms in ecofeminism, without which “struggles for environmental justice . . . will not adequately understand [how] systems of oppression (such as racism, colonialism, gender discrimination, and environmental degradation) are interconnected and mutually reinforcing.”17 The gender and racial aspects of the analyses presented in this volume are especially pertinent given the fact that almost all of the contributions deal with texts written by and about women of color. The selection of voices and texts in this volume also offers a wide array in terms of genres (farm, immigrant, detective, and cli-fi novels, nature writing, poetry), time period (mid-twentieth century to the present) and status (from Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison to lesser-known, but still critically recognized authors such as Lucha Corpi and Ofelia Zepeda).