ABSTRACT
This chapter weaves together approaches from Indigenous studies, the environmental humanities, and world literary studies to examine how twentieth-century Native American authors have employed literature to highlight instances of environmental racism and, crucially, to imagine the possibility of environmental justice. Focusing on poetry by Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) and fiction by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), I highlight the place of settler colonialism in debates around environmental justice. Understanding environmental justice as the necessary other side of the coin to environmental racism, this chapter asks how literary forms can advocate for and imagine more just futures for humans and nonhumans alike.
