Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women's Novels and Films in The Americas
The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency
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Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women's Novels and Films in The Americas
The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency
About this book
The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. Women's activism against environmental dispossession in the Americas manifests not only in protests and classrooms but also through artistic filmmaking and writing. 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. It demonstrates that contemporary women in the Americas engage deeply with ecological issues, analyzing their representations and identifying common principles across texts. Using an interdisciplinary approach from environmental humanities, gender and Indigenous studies, and film and literary studies, the author compares works from Canada and Latin America. Three poetics emerge: environmental destruction critiques harmful development; care expands notions of reciprocity beyond the human; and insurgency showcases struggles against extractivist models. These works invite readers to understand the complex interconnections of environmental justice within society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Land Acknowledgement
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Exploring Environmental Humanities in the Americas: Insights from Gender and Ethnic Perspectives
- 2 The Poetics of Environmental Destruction: Resisting Maldesarrollo in the Americas
- 3 The Poetics of Environmental Care: Expanding Care “as a Life Sustaining Web”
- 4 The Poetics of Environmental Insurgency in Defence of Common Goods: Reimagining Environmentally Equitable Societies through Alternative Worldviews
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index