Lexington Books
Pages: 196
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66691-900-4 • Hardback • December 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66691-901-1 • eBook • December 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
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.
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
"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 Beneš’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