Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines
post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption.
Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural
production in the work of a number of historically significant
writers including John Steinbeck, Ruth Ozeki, and Cherrie Moraga,
this book outlines a series of incisive dialogues on transnational
flows of capital and environmental justice. Texts ranging from The
Grapes of Wrath (1939) to Body Toxic (2001) represent the body as
vulnerable to a host of environmental risks. They identify "natural
disasters" not just as environmental hazards and catastrophes, but
also as events intertwined with socioeconomic issues. With careful
textual analysis, Athanassakis shows how twentieth- and
twenty-first-century US writers have sought to rethink traditional
understandings of how the human being relates to ecological
phenomena. Their work, and this study, offer new modes of creative
engagement with environmental degradation - engagement that is
proactive, ambivalent, and even playful. This book contributes to
vital discussions about the importance of literature for social
justice movements, food studies, ecocriticism, and the
environmental humanities. The core argument of the book is that
artistically imaginative narratives of environmental disturbance
can help humans contend with ostensibly uncontrollable, drastic
planetary changes.
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