Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
Poetics of Dissent and Repair

Illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

Janet Fiskio (Author)

9781108840675, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 April 2021

290 pages
15 x 23 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg

Placing climate change within the long histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and resistance, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice: Poetics of Dissent and Repair examines the connections between climate disruption and white supremacy. Drawing on decolonial and reparative theories, Janet Fiskio focuses on expressive cultures and practices, such as dance, protests, and cooking, in conversation with texts by Kazim Ali, Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Mark Nowak, Simon Ortiz, Jesmyn Ward, and Colson Whitehead. Through an exploration of speculative pasts and futures, practices of dissent and mourning, and everyday inhabitation and social care, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice illuminates the ways that frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

1. Introduction
2. 'Fear of a Black Planet': Ecotopia and Eugenics in Climate Narratives
3. Ghosts and Reparations
4. Mapping and Memory
5. 'Bodies Tell Stories': Mourning and Hospitality after Katrina
6. Round Dance and Resistance
7. 'Slow Insurrection': Dissent, Collective Voice, and Social Care
8. Cannibal Spirits and Sacred Seeds
9. Epilogue: 'Everyday Micro-Utopias'.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Literature & literary studies [D]