Ariel's ecology : plantations, personhood, and colonialism in the American tropics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allewaert, Monique, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--History--18th century--Southern States.

Human ecology.

Human ecology--History--18th century--Caribbean Area.

Human beings--History--Effect of nature on--18th century--Southern States.

Human beings.

Human beings--History--Effect of environment on--18th century--Caribbean Area.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Psychological aspects--18th century--Southern States.

Plantation life--History--18th century--Caribbean Area.

Plantation life.

Plantation life--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monique Allewaert contends that on eighteenth-century American plantations, labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, Ariel's Ecology explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and colonial metropoles.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: Tempest in the Plantation Zone

I

1. Swamp Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone

2. Plant Life: Tropical Vegetation, Animate Matter, and Cosmopolitical Form

II

3. On Parahumanity: Creole Stories and the Suspension of the Human

4. Persons without Objects: Afro-American Materialisms from Fetishes to Personhood

III

5. Involving the Universe in Ruins: Sansay's Haitian Anabiography

Epilogue: Afterlives of Ariel's Ecology

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-8900-8