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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allewaert, Monique.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Human ecology.

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

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

Human beings.

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

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Psychological aspects.

Plantation life--Southern States--History--18th century.

Plantation life.

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

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction : tempest in the plantation zone

Swamp sublime : ecology and resistance in the American plantation zone

Plant life : tropical vegetation, agencied matter, and cosmopolitical form

On parahumanity : Creole stories and the suspension of the human

Persons without objects : Afro-American materialisms from fetishes to personhood

Involving the universe in ruins : Sansay's Haitian anabiography

Epilogue : afterlives of Ariel's ecology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line -- Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs and Herbacious Plants (DAMS 895) (call # Ab No Date #251), pages 39-40.

ISBN:

9780816677276 (hc : alk. paper)

0816677271 (hc : alk. paper)

9780816677283 (pb : alk. paper)

081667728X (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

816563764