%0 Journal Article 
%A Werbanowska, Marta
%T Ecojustice poetry in the "BreakBeat Poets" anthologies
%D 2022
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/51752
%X Ecological modes of thinking and an awareness of environmental (in)justice are becoming 
increasingly pronounced in the ethics and aesthetics of hip hop. One area in which the culture’s growing 
interest in ecology as practice and metaphor is particularly visible is hip hop poetry’s turn to ecojustice, or 
an intersectional concern with social and environmental justice, liberation, diversity, and sustainability. 
This article examines selected works from the first two volumes of anthologies published by Haymarket 
Books as part of their "BreakBeat Poets" series, focusing on three ecojustice-oriented poems that address 
animal rights, gentrification, and (un)natural disasters. Their authors—all Black women—draw from 
African American history and culture to illuminate the intertwined ideological, political, and economic 
dimensions of some of the most pressing humanitarian and environmental crises of today. Samantha 
Thornhill’s “Ode to a Killer Whale” takes the form of a poetic monologue by the fictional character of Kunta 
Kinte, revealing similarities between human and animal subjugation and inscribing animal liberation in the 
Black revolutionary tradition. Candace G. Wiley’s “Parcel Map for the County Assessor” re-members and re-creates a culture of place that permeated the speaker’s countryside childhood to present the larger-than-human cost of rural gentrification. Finally, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s “Global Warming Blues” juxtaposes the personal and the elemental dimensions of climate change in a blues remix that advocates for ecojustice for the disenfranchised.

%K Ecopoética
%K Ecojusticia
%K Poesía hip hop
%K Afroamericano
%K Poetas negras
%K Ecopoetics
%K Ecojustice
%K Hip hop poetry
%K African American
%K Black women poets
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala