Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature - (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) by Petr Kopecký & Jan Benes (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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.

About the Author

Petr Kopecký is associate professor in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Ostrava.

Jan Benes is assistant professor of American and British Literature at the University of Ostrava.