From Rural Miseria to Urban Repression: Environmental Injustice and Eco-Nostalgia in Italian American History and Literature

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Research Article| July 01 2020 From Rural Miseria to Urban Repression: Environmental Injustice and Eco-Nostalgia in Italian American History and Literature Sienna Hopkins Sienna Hopkins SIENNA HOPKINS holds a PhD in Italian literature from UCLA. She currently teaches Italian language, culture, history, and comparative literature at California State University, Long Beach. Her areas of research are Italian Renaissance biography, Italian American history and literature, migration studies, ecocriticism, and gender studies. Her courses include “The Italian American Experience,” “Reading between the Lines: Analyzing Italian Literature, Love and Death in Italian Literature 1300-1800,” “Nation, Self, and Psyche in Italian Literature 1800-Present,” and “La Dolce Vita: Italian Culture Through the Centuries.” In 2012-2013 she was visiting assistant professor of Italian at Pepperdine University, where her courses included “Italian Literature Through Film, Italian Theater, and Italian Culture.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian American Review (2020) 10 (2): 114–147. https://doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.10.2.0114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sienna Hopkins; From Rural Miseria to Urban Repression: Environmental Injustice and Eco-Nostalgia in Italian American History and Literature. Italian American Review 1 January 2020; 10 (2): 114–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.10.2.0114 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressItalian American Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.