Title Angry planet : decolonial fiction and the American third world / Anne Stewart

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages) Contents Introduction: Messages from the angry planet -- Terraforming the New World: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Colson Whitehead's The institutionist -- First world problems: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Third world liberation: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Héctor Tobar's The tattooed soldier -- The fourth world resurgent: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower -- Conclusion: The angry planet in the anthropocene Summary "Many novels from the end of the millennium center around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. Anne Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the 1990s-the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2023) Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Ecology in literature. Decolonization in literature. American fiction Decolonization in literature Ecology in literature Planets in literature SUBJECT Earth (Planet) -- In literature Subject Earth (Planet) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022039139 ISBN 1452968640 9781452968650 1452968659 9781452968643

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