Title Allegories of the Anthropocene / Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) Contents Agriculture and empire : excavating plantation soil -- Planetarity : militarized radiations -- Accelerations : globalization and states of waste -- Oceanic futures : interspecies worldings -- An island is a world 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2019) digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on. Climatic changes in literature. Human ecology in art. Caribbean literature -- 21st century -- Themes, motives Pacific Island literature -- 21st century -- Themes, motives Art, Caribbean -- 21st century -- Themes, motives Art, Pacific Island -- 21st century -- Themes, motives Postcolonialism in literature. Postcolonialism and the arts. Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Islands of the Pacific Literary studies: post-colonial literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on Climatic changes in literature Climatic changes -- Social aspects Human ecology in art Pacific Island literature -- Themes, motives Postcolonialism and the arts Postcolonialism in literature Caribbean Area Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific Form Electronic book LC no. 2019006483 ISBN 9781478005582 1478005580

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