Beyond Cli-Fi: Exanding the Boundaries of American Climate Literature

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In the third year of this kaken project I investigated historical events, issues, legacies, and transnational movements reflected in environmental literature and cultural texts. For instance, I explored logging’s links to destruction of salmon habitat and water contamination depicted in Ash Davidson’s 2021 Damnation Spring. Texts including Winona LaDuke’s To Be a Water Protector (2020) and Zoltan Grossman’s Unlikely Alliances (2017) helped me extrapolate lessons from Davidson’s novel set in northern California’s redwood country during the late 1970s and make connections to contemporary environmental justice movements and interracial rural alliances working to defend indigenous rights and resist the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada and the United States.Accomplishments include 1) conducting research overseas to learn about the Lake Superior and Mississippi River watersheds; 2) learning about the history of the Anishinaabe people in the Great Lakes region and reserved Treaty Rights by visiting the Fond du Lac Cultural Center and Museum; 3) learning about Anishinaabe culture by attending an exhibit of Rabbett Before Horses Strickland’s paintings at the Madeline Island Museum, a performance of “Anishinaabe Dibaajimowin: An Ojibwe Story,” a poetry reading by Denise Sweet and Frank Montano, Red Cliff Cultural Days, and Honor the Earth’s Water Is Life Festival; 4) learning about the environment and history of the Great Lakes region from exhibits at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor’s Center and the Great Lakes Aquarium.