Latinx environmentalisms : place, justice, and the decolonial /

"'Latinx Environmentalisms' brings the environmental humanities into dialogue with Latinx literary and cultural studies. By considering how Latinx cultures are environmental but often refuse to identify as environmentalist, the volume explores the possibilities and challenges of Latin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wald, Sarah D. (Editor ), Vázquez, David J. (Editor ), Ybarra, Priscilla Solis (Editor ), Ray, Sarah Jaquette (Editor ), Pulido, Laura (writer of foreword.), Alaimo, Stacy, 1962- (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2019.
Temas:
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Ecocriticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Environmentalism > United States.
Environmental justice > United States.
Environmentalism in art.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine > Histoire et critique.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Environnementalisme dans l'art.
Écocritique.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Justice environnementale > États-Unis.
Environmentalism in art
American literature > Hispanic American authors
Ecocriticism
Environmental justice
Environmentalism
Environmentalism in literature
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Laura Pulido
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction : Why Latinx environmentalisms? / Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray
  • Part I. Place : Racial Capital and the Production of Place
  • 2. Greenwashing the white savior : Cancer clusters, supercrips, and 'McFarland, USA' / Julie Avril Minich
  • 3. The National Park Foundation's "American Latino Expedition" : Consumer citizenship as pathway to multicultural national belonging / Sarah D. Wald
  • 4. "A story is a physical space" : An interview with Héctor Tobar / Shane Hall
  • 5. Speculative futurity and the eco-cultural politics of 'Lunar Braceros : 2125-2148' / Christopher Perreira
  • 6. Sun Ma(i)d : Art, activism, and environment in Ester Hernández's Central Valley / Jennifer Garcia Peacock
  • 7. "An organic being in the middle of Chicago" : An interview with Ana Castillo / Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah D. Wald
  • Part II. Justice : Expanding Environmentalism
  • 8. Environmental justice and the ecological other in Ana Castillo's 'So Far from God' / Sarah Jaquette Ray
  • 9. "We carry our environments within ourselves" : An interview with Helena María Viramontes / David J. Vázquez, Sarah D. Wald, and Paula M. L. Moya
  • 10. "Between water and song" : Maria Melendez and the contours of contemporary Latinx ecopoetry / Randy Ontiveros
  • 11. "Justice is a living organism" : An interview with Lucha Corpi / Gabriela Nuñez
  • Part III. The Decolonial : Alternative Kinships and Epistemologies of Futurity
  • 12. Memory, space, and gentrification : The legacies of the Young Lords and urban decolonial environmentalism in Ernesto Quiñonez's 'Bodega Dreams' / David J. Vázquez
  • 13. Postcards from the edges of Haiti : The Latinx ecocriticism of Mayra Montero's 'In the Palm of Darkness' / Ylce Irizarry
  • 14. "Against the sorrowful and infinite solitude" : Environmental consciousness and streetwalker theorizing in Helena María Viramontes's 'Their Dogs Came with Them' / Paula M. L. Moya
  • 15. Oedipal wrecks : Queer animal ecologies in Justin Torres's 'We the Animals' / Richard T. Rodríguez
  • 16. "The body knows and the land has memory" : An interview with Cherríe Moraga / Priscilla Solis Ybarra
  • Afterword : What is absent : Fields, futures and Latinx environmentalisms / Stacy Alaimo
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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