TY - CHAP
T1 - Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement
AU - Adamson, Joni
PY - 2010/3/16
Y1 - 2010/3/16
KW - "Zapatista rebels," in Mexico protesting impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on indigenous communal farming
KW - Binational women's group working on US-Mexico-Arizona-New Mexico border -improving living and working conditions of factory workers in maquiladoras
KW - Environmental justice groups, SWOP and Comadresare -fighting release of unseen toxins in work place environment and in their community
KW - Lawrence Buell calling in The Future of Environmental Criticism, the "complicated dialogue" surrounding "environmental imagination"
KW - Limitations of ecocriticism, failing to deal seriously with connections between social issues and environmental issues
KW - Literature-and-environment studies and the influence of environmental justice movement
KW - Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Scott Slovic and Cheryll Glotfelty -celebrating "coming-of-age" of literature-and-environment studies
KW - Other feminist, ethnic, gay and lesbian, and borderlands scholars -focusing on cultural, social, sexual and geographic "borderlands" to develop paradigm for reading "la frontera"
KW - So Far from God, set in northern New Mexico, a small town called Tome -highest unemployment in its history
KW - The Marx-Buell debate -taking as its starting point one quote from The Environmental Imagination
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444320626.ch35
DO - 10.1002/9781444320626.ch35
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84555176457
SN - 9780631208921
SP - 593
EP - 607
BT - A Companion to American Literature and Culture
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -