Extended Deadline: JMMLA Spring 2021 – “Race, Ethnicity, and the Environment”
2021 marks the 10th anniversary of Allison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret Savoy’s The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. The essays that Deming and Savoy collect in this important anthology all seek to expand traditional understandings of nature writing and environmental thought by reflecting on “how identity and place, human history and ‘natural’ history, power and silence, and social injustice and environmental degradation are fundamentally linked” (10). To help contribute to the critical conversation started by Deming, Savoy, and others, ...
Updated deadline: Myth and 21st C. Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet
Updated deadline: Myth and 21st C. Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet
Call for contributions to edited volume
Myth and 21st C. Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet
Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the old times of storytelling and legend (Love 2003; O’Brian and White 2017, Schama 1996). From native American oral narrative where animals, humans and other beings interact, to Genesis in the Bible or the Darwinian theory of evolution, we ...