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The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions of women filmmakers and novelists, highlighting how their work reveals the connections between environmental dispossession and various injustices related to gender, ethnicity, age, class, and labor.
List of contents
List of Figures
Land Acknowledgement
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Exploring Environmental Humanities in the Americas: Insights from Gender and Ethnic Perspectives
Chapter 2 The Poetics of Environmental Destruction: Resisting
Maldesarrollo in the Americas
Chapter 3 The Poetics of Environmental Care: Expanding Care "as a Life Sustaining Web"
Chapter 4 The Poetics of Environmental Insurgency in Defense of Common Goods: Reimagining Environmentally Equitable Societies through Alternative Worldviews
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Victoria Jara is an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She teaches cross-listed courses in the Departments of Languages and Cultures, English and Writing Studies, and Film Studies. Her research examines how contemporary Latin American and Canadian women novelists and filmmakers depict environmental injustices, with a particular focus on representations of girls, Indigenous women, and environmental migrants. She has contributed book chapters to
Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations (Lexington) and several forthcoming volumes, including
The Handbook of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Literature and
The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, both edited by Douglas Vakoch;
Environmental Activism, Decoloniality, and Literature of the Global South, edited by Gutam Karmakar and Sule Egya; and
Eco-Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health and Environmental Anxieties in Media and Culture, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Her work has also been published in peer-reviewed journals such as
Imagofagia, Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, Chasqui, INTI, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and
Future Humanities
