“This is a vital book in every sense—essential and life-giving. The essays and interviews provide a compelling, teachable engagement with a robust field within environmental studies.”— Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton University and author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
“This brilliant, generative set of essays and interviews, Latinx Environmentalisms, challenges a whole host of received assumptions coursing through ecopoetics, the environmental humanities, animal studies, and interdisciplinary studies more broadly. From born again and queer animals to radical conceptions of goodlife writing, these essays open forward the complex Latinx spatial-social relations that bloggers, novelists, essayists and poets engage, thereby confounding the mainline ecocritical narratives that have too frequently ignored the extraordinary contributions of Latinx environmentalisms writ large.”—Mary Pat Brady, Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space
“(T)his collection underscores the formative value of the environmentalist (or not) stances of the writers we study…. As the expansive and nuanced work of Wald, Vázquez, Ybarra, and Ray in assembling and framing Latinx Environmentalisms shows, together we begin to nurture the work of critique, exposing a panoply of texts for analysis and understanding, and constructively creating the environmentalisms—and ‘environmentalists’—we urgently need.” — Scott Hicks, American Literary History
“Overall, Latinx Environmentalisms is a critical intervention in the field of Environmental studies and Latinx studies. Understanding the ways in which decolonial environmentalisms can be theorized as central to many Latinx communities, yet also heavily connected to the colonial history of many Latinx nations, furthers our understandings of what it means to conceptualize the colonial project, environmental injustice, and Latinx studies as a whole.”- Bryanna Barrera, Ethnic and Third World Literature
“As the first edited collection focused on the intersection of Latinx literary studies and environmental studies, the editors challenge both the whiteness of environmentalist thought and movements and also take seriously that many of the artists interviewed and whose work is examined do not identify themselves as environmentalists. . . Ultimately, Latinx Environmentalismsattempts to fill a large gap in ecocriticism and establish the importance of environmental thought in Latinx literature. In both goals it succeeds.” – Regina Marie Mills, Western American Literature
“Latinx Environmentalismsis a fantastic resource and will prove to be an unparalleled reference on the topic both for interested academics and for use in the graduate and undergraduate classroom.” – Jeremy Larochelle, ISLE
“In reading Latinx Environmentalisms, I was impressed by the book’s collaborative approach. This edited collection may be more accurately described as a collaboration; in addition to curating and editing the chapters, each of the coeditors contributes an article or interview. Indeed, this work of collaboration—rather than collection—seems more philosophically consistent with the decolonial modes of thought and scholarly production the book seeks to foreground.” – English Brooks, MELUS-Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
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