Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
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GBPPlacing climate change within the long histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and resistance, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice: Poetics of Dissent and Repair examines the connections between climate disruption and white supremacy. Drawing on decolonial and reparative theories, Janet Fiskio focuses on expressive cultures and practices, such as dance, protests, and cooking, in conversation with texts by Kazim Ali, Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Mark Nowak, Simon Ortiz, Jesmyn Ward, and Colson Whitehead. Through an exploration of speculative pasts and futures, practices of dissent and mourning, and everyday inhabitation and social care, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice illuminates the ways that frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.
- Places climate justice within decolonial and reparative perspectives
- Develops analysis of the ways that expressive cultures resist environmental racism and practice repair
- Enriches the environmental humanities by integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from environmental justice, performance studies, ecocriticism, environmental ethics, and critical race theory in the context of climate disruption
Product details
April 2021Hardback
9781108840675
290 pages
150 × 230 × 20 mm
0.51kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. 'Fear of a Black Planet': Ecotopia and Eugenics in Climate Narratives
- 3. Ghosts and Reparations
- 4. Mapping and Memory
- 5. 'Bodies Tell Stories': Mourning and Hospitality after Katrina
- 6. Round Dance and Resistance
- 7. 'Slow Insurrection': Dissent, Collective Voice, and Social Care
- 8. Cannibal Spirits and Sacred Seeds
- 9. Epilogue: 'Everyday Micro-Utopias'.
