Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women's Novels and Films in The Americas - Jara, Victoria
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The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions of women filmmakers and novelists, highlighting how their work reveals the connections between environmental dispossession and various injustices related to gender, ethnicity, age, class, and labor.

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Produktbeschreibung
The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions of women filmmakers and novelists, highlighting how their work reveals the connections between environmental dispossession and various injustices related to gender, ethnicity, age, class, and labor.
Autorenporträt
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