Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature Volume 39 Issue 2 Testimonies of Environmental Injustice Article 2 in the Global South 2015 Putting Environmental Injustice on the Map: Ecotestimonies from the Global South Erin S. Finzer University of Arkansas - Little Rock,
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[email protected]. Putting Environmental Injustice on the Map: Ecotestimonies from the Global South Abstract This introductory essay to STTCL 39.2 discusses the importance of testimony as a flexible literary genre that can tell the stories of environmental injustice in the Global South, which is disproportionately affected by environmental violence and less represented in the growing global environmental movement. Keywords ecotestimony, environmental injustice, Global South, testimonio, resistance literature, climate change Cover Page Footnote This special issue was compiled in fond memory of Nao Ueda, environmental activist, urban homesteader, and friend.