Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement

Joni Adamson

doi:10.1002/9781444320626.ch35

Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Companion to American Literature and Culture
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	593-607
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9780631208921
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320626.ch35
State	Published - Mar 16 2010

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"Zapatista rebels," in Mexico protesting impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on indigenous communal farming
Binational women's group working on US-Mexico-Arizona-New Mexico border -improving living and working conditions of factory workers in maquiladoras
Environmental justice groups, SWOP and Comadresare -fighting release of unseen toxins in work place environment and in their community
Lawrence Buell calling in The Future of Environmental Criticism, the "complicated dialogue" surrounding "environmental imagination"
Limitations of ecocriticism, failing to deal seriously with connections between social issues and environmental issues
Literature-and-environment studies and the influence of environmental justice movement
Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Scott Slovic and Cheryll Glotfelty -celebrating "coming-of-age" of literature-and-environment studies
Other feminist, ethnic, gay and lesbian, and borderlands scholars -focusing on cultural, social, sexual and geographic "borderlands" to develop paradigm for reading "la frontera"
So Far from God, set in northern New Mexico, a small town called Tome -highest unemployment in its history
The Marx-Buell debate -taking as its starting point one quote from The Environmental Imagination

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General Arts and Humanities

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