{"product_id":"everyday-ecofascism-crisis-and-consumption-in-american-literature-9781517918675","title":"Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As challenges posed by climate change have intensified in the twenty-first century, right-wing figures in the United States and abroad have increasingly framed anti-immigrant, anti-Indigenous, and white-supremacist sentiments in terms of environmental survival. \u003ci\u003eEveryday Ecofascism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the insidious nature of this tendency, revealing how permutations of these perspectives in fact resonate across the political spectrum. Drawing on comparative studies of fascism writ large, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination. \u003cp\u003e Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Menrisky shows how extremist sentiments have crept into everyday language, stories, and ideas. Through a literary and cultural studies lens, he illuminates ecofascism's narrative patterns and their easy permeation of environmentalist discourses, from back-to-the-land movements to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, food localism, and pandemic politics. Opposite his analysis of ecofascism in action, Menrisky sheds important light on narrative resistances to dominant conceptions of race, nation, and territory by Native, queer, and women-of-color writers who have countered ethnonationalism for generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bridging past and present, Menrisky powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid-19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism that detangles ecofascist tendencies from justice-oriented visions of place-based belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alexander Menrisky is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is author of \u003ci\u003eWild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51997876158738,"sku":"9781517918675","price":123.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a0d2c22-8adc-430a-92a6-34309f559a44.jpg?v=1770135804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everyday-ecofascism-crisis-and-consumption-in-american-literature-9781517918675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}