Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Novels and Films in The Americas

Victoria Jara is an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She teaches cross-listed courses in the Departments of Languages and Cultures, English and Writing Studies, and Film Studies. Her research examines how contemporary Latin American and Canadian women novelists and filmmakers depict environmental injustices, with a particular focus on representations of girls, Indigenous women, and environmental migrants. She has contributed book chapters to Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations (Lexington) and several forthcoming volumes, including The Handbook of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Literature and The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, both edited by Douglas Vakoch; Environmental Activism, Decoloniality, and Literature of the Global South, edited by Gutam Karmakar and Sule Egya; and Eco-Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health and Environmental Anxieties in Media and Culture, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Her work has also been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Imagofagia, Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, Chasqui, INTI, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Future Humanities

• List of FiguresLand AcknowledgementAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Exploring Environmental Humanities in the Americas: Insights from Gender and Ethnic PerspectivesChapter 2 The Poetics of Environmental Destruction: Resisting Maldesarrollo in the AmericasChapter 3 The Poetics of Environmental Care: Expanding Care “as a Life Sustaining Web”Chapter 4 The Poetics of Environmental Insurgency in Defense of Common Goods: Reimagining Environmentally Equitable Societies through Alternative WorldviewsConclusionWorks CitedIndex