{"product_id":"9781648433733-we-are-nature-defending-itself","title":"We Are Nature Defending Itself","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place\u003c\/i\u003e is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives.” Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as advocates for the environment. Though this theme has long existed in Chicana literature, it has never been positioned as front and center as it is in this anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume editor Cordelia E. Barrera also includes notable Anglo, African American, and Indigenous contributors, crafting a true cultural blend of distinctive writing that will appeal to older generations while inspiring new ones. By incorporating these border voices, this collection effectively challenges long-dominant mythologies of the American West and offers a prominent place for literatures of social justice and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe mix of poems, stories, and essays are divided into three sections: Bodies, Landscape, and Practices. Part I begins with the idea of experiencing and feeling a history of the body’s contact with landscapes and places as repositories of knowledge. Part II extends beyond particulars of private or public life to consider issues of place as sites and locations of radical action. Part III features ruminations and traditions of remembering, highlighting reciprocal relationships to the natural world that extend outward to the ways “women’s work” in and around the home shapes communal processes that reinforce continuity across time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Are Nature Defending Itself\u003c\/i\u003e adds important new work to the growing canon of nature and borderlands writing by women of color. In turn, these new voices deepen and broaden our understanding of humanity and its relationship to the natural environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56684775768438,"sku":"9781648433733","price":29.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38810921_95c94d0b-2db2-4073-8975-acaf86b4e002.jpg?v=1764350647","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781648433733-we-are-nature-defending-itself","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}