Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Novels and Films in the Americas: The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency

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.

Victoria Jara is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches cross-listed courses in the Departments of Languages and Cultures, English and Writing Studies, and Film Studies. Her research explores how contemporary Latin American and Canadian women novelists and filmmakers represent environmental injustices, with a particular focus on depictions of girls, Indigenous women, and environmental migrants. She has published chapters in Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations (Lexington), The Handbook of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Literature, The Routledge 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, Eco-Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health and Environmental Anxieties in Media and Culture edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and articles in the peer-reviewed journals Imagofagia, Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, Chasqui, INTI, and Future Humanities.