...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...

... of noxious “smellscapes” structures Norris’s Vandover and the Brute (1914), I move on to consider the use of smell in key scenes in the writings of Ann Petry and Helena Viramontes. While environmental justice novels extend Norris’s interest in connections between smell, health, and stratified air, they also...

... communities by diminishing the ecological infrastructures of their lands. This article argues that literary fiction can produce new understandings of situated environmental challenges and can pose particular obligations for environmental justice. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...

... avenues in environmental justice studies to think about history, cultural production, and rights beyond the human and strengthens Native sovereignty through evidence of historic Native relations to land beyond property law. References Allen Chadwick . 2012 . Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies...

... example of an alternative black tradition and experience of nature, it also showcases the organic connection between the struggles for social and environmental justice. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Lance Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Newman Frederick Douglass’s...

... of environmental experience. John Claborn’s Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 offers a textual prehistory of environmental justice, showing how African American writings that focus primarily on black empowerment simultaneously evince an “emergent sense...

... transformative grassroots movements and environment literary studies. Such early discussions of the environmental justice movement and environ- mental justice–oriented ecocriticism led Lawrence Buell to suggest that the field had decisively shifted in a direction that would predominate going for- ward...

... and Trexler) and to theorize how texts critique and renew the civilizations from which they emerge (Zapf). Writing the Goodlife stands out for its astute selection of Mexican American and Chicana/o texts and for its convincing claim that the environmental justice rubric that dominates ecocritical...

... between transformative grassroots movements and environment literary studies. Such early discussions of the environmental justice movement and environ- mental justice–oriented ecocriticism led Lawrence Buell to suggest that the field had decisively shifted in a direction that would predominate...

..., the most recent wave of eco- critical work has turned toward the global and the theoretical, closely engag- ing with critical geography, postcolonial studies, political philosophy, aesthet- ics, environmental justice, regional studies, and other fields. This special issue of American Literature...

... between historical plantation slavery and contemporary petrochemical exposure is clear. Sociologist Thom Davies ( 2017 ) writes, “The region’s plantation past has been transposed onto the toxic geographies of today. As veteran environmental justice campaigner Darryl Maley-Wiley explained in an interview...

... agriculture, focusing instead on environmental issues and a more populist critique of economic injustice, such as land con- solidation, without engaging wider questions of food justice.14 Heise notes that “environmental justice activists have often taken issue with the underlying assumptions of race...

.... These are only a few. More broadly, we invite submissions that take an expansive view of the concept of infrastructure, its representations in literature and other media, its history and historical contexts, and its implications for environmental justice at local, regional, and planetary scales. Submissions...

.... These are only a few. More broadly, we invite submissions that take an expansive view of the concept of infrastructure, its representations in literature and other media, its history and historical contexts, and its implications for environmental justice at local, regional, and planetary scales. Submissions...

... Communities of pain; communal or distributed pain Human and nonhuman pain, especially in relation to environmental justice Epistemologies and ontologies of pain Spectacles of pain and pain’s invisibility Submissions of 11,000 words or less (including endnotes and references) should...

.../objectivity Communities of pain; communal or distributed pain Human and nonhuman pain, especially in relation to environmental justice Epistemologies and ontologies of pain Spectacles of pain and pain’s invisibility Submissions of 11,000 words or less (including endnotes and references...

.../objectivity Communities of pain; communal or distributed pain Human and nonhuman pain, especially in relation to environmental justice Epistemologies and ontologies of pain Spectacles of pain and pain’s invisibility Submissions of 11,000 words or less (including endnotes and references...

... . 2001 . American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . Alfred Taiaiake . 2005 . “ Sovereignty .” In Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination...

... in Black feminist speculative fiction. Black feminist spatial praxis, these works show, becomes the transformative site of social life and environmental justice that invents new forms of animacy and attunement in the Anthropocene. These forms of sensory life and abolitionist planetary futures in M Archive...

... Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . Adorno Theodor W. 2005 . Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life . Translated by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso . First published 1951. Beck Ulrich...