The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary textsupoems, short... more The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary textsupoems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visionsu illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers. Also included are historical selections that ground contemporary pieces in a continuum of activist concern for the earth and human justice, a much-needed but seldom available perspective. Arts and humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an ecologically sustainable and just world. Works of the human imagination provide analyses, articulations of experience, and positive visions of the future that no amount of statistics, data, charts, or graphs can offer because literature speaks not only to the intellect but also to our emotions. Creative literary work, which records human experience both past and present, has the power to warn, to persuade, ...
In an article in the New York Review of Books some years ago Nadine Gordimer asked,"... more In an article in the New York Review of Books some years ago Nadine Gordimer asked," For whom does the author write?" While the liberal humanist tradition continues to insist that audience is not the concern of writers, this has remained an explosive central question for ...
... do the same. It was generally believed that his contemporary Ramtanu Lahiri had succeeded in ... more ... do the same. It was generally believed that his contemporary Ramtanu Lahiri had succeeded in gaining admis-sion to Hare's school by running after him for two months.Ramtanu was thirteen years old at the time. The public ...
The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary textsupoems, short... more The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary textsupoems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visionsu illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers. Also included are historical selections that ground contemporary pieces in a continuum of activist concern for the earth and human justice, a much-needed but seldom available perspective. Arts and humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an ecologically sustainable and just world. Works of the human imagination provide analyses, articulations of experience, and positive visions of the future that no amount of statistics, data, charts, or graphs can offer because literature speaks not only to the intellect but also to our emotions. Creative literary work, which records human experience both past and present, has the power to warn, to persuade, ...
In an article in the New York Review of Books some years ago Nadine Gordimer asked,"... more In an article in the New York Review of Books some years ago Nadine Gordimer asked," For whom does the author write?" While the liberal humanist tradition continues to insist that audience is not the concern of writers, this has remained an explosive central question for ...
... do the same. It was generally believed that his contemporary Ramtanu Lahiri had succeeded in ... more ... do the same. It was generally believed that his contemporary Ramtanu Lahiri had succeeded in gaining admis-sion to Hare's school by running after him for two months.Ramtanu was thirteen years old at the time. The public ...
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