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Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature focuses on a wide range of conceptions, depictions, and issues of environmental (in)justice found in African American, Latinx, Asian American, and American Indian literature to provide a panorama of ethnic peoples, regions, and cultures affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and racial discrimination, now exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Specifically, the volume highlights the capacity of literature and literary criticism to help uncover the causes and consequences of instances of environmental injustice and their impact. The chapters analyze a diverse selection of voices and texts, which underscore how the literary imagination of ethnic American writers captures, in contrast with official statistics, impersonal data and the reports compiled from them, the tangible and often inescapable problems of communities struggling against environmental racism. The issues addressed in the volume range from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice, to agrarianism, while utilizing theoretical lenses such as ecofeminist paradigms or innovative applications of ecolinguistic methods to poetry. Overall, the monograph brings to the fore a diversity of literary responses to environmental racism and calls for environmental justice.

Table of Contents

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
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Product details

Published 09 Jul 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 196
ISBN 9781666919028
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Petr Kopecký

Petr Kopecký is associate professor in the…

Anthology Editor

Jan Beneš

Jan Beneš is assistant professor of America…

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Petr Kopecký

Petr Kopecký is associate professor in the…

Contributor

Jan Beneš

Jan Beneš is assistant professor of America…

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Miroslav Cerný

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Parisa Changizi

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Denisa Krásná

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