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Allegories of the Anthropocene / Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes in literature.
- Human ecology in art.
- Caribbean literature--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Caribbean literature.
- Pacific Island literature--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Pacific Island literature.
- Art, Caribbean--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Caribbean.
- Art, Pacific Island--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Pacific Island.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Postcolonialism and the arts.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Islands of the Pacific.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Themes, motives.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- In 'Allegories of the Anthropocene' Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers-including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellan, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber-whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.
- Contents:
- Agriculture and empire : excavating plantation soil
- Planetarity and militarized radiations
- Accelerations : globalization and states of waste
- Oceanic futures : interspecies worldings
- An island is a world.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- Allegories of the Anthropocene.
- ISBN:
- 9781478005582
- 1478005580
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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