Environmental Justice Literature
We are developing a set of links for fiction and creative non-fiction writers who have dealt with issues of environmental racism and environmental justice. A short list of such authors would include: Winona LaDuke (pictured above), Linda Hogan, Barbara Neely, Margo Tamez, Leslie Silko, Simon Ortiz, Ana Castillo, Jessica Hagedorn, Karen Yamashita, Cherrie Moraga, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker, among many others from the US and around the world. Suggestions for additional writers and links are appreciated.
Featured Site:
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). The main organization for the community of eco-criticism practitioners. Includes information on conferences, discussion lists, publications, writers, and related web sites.
Key Sites:
- Toni Cade Bambara African American author of the remarkable novel, The Salt Eaters, a work rich in environmental justice themes.
- Rachel Carson Forum A site with biographical information, speeches, and more about this influential natural science writer and proto-environmental justice advocate.
- Ana Castillo Chicana author of one of the great environmental justice novels, So Far From God.
- Linda Hogan Chickasaw poet, novelist and environmental writer.
- Winona LaDuke Anishinabeg ej activist-writer.
- Cherrie Moraga Chicana author of the environmental justice play "Heroes and Saints."
- Barbara Neely African American author of the mystery/environmental justice novel Blanche Cleans Up.
- Simon Ortiz Acoma Pueblo poet, fictionist, nature/culture essayist.
- Leslie Marmon Silko Languna Pueblo novelist, poet and writer.
- Margo Tamez Lipan-Jumano Apache, poet and ej activist. =
- Karen Tei Yamashita Asian Americcan author of Tropic of Orange and Arc of the Rainforest, two novels that raise environmental justice issues in the context of corporate globalization and resistance.