ISBN:
9781478005582
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967 - Allegories of the Anthropocene
DDC:
809/.93355609729
Keywords:
Climatic changes Effect of human beings on
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Climatic changes in literature
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Human ecology in art
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Caribbean literature Themes, motives 21st century
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Pacific Island literature Themes, motives 21st century
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Art, Caribbean Themes, motives 21st century
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Art, Pacific Island Themes, motives 21st century
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Postcolonialism and the arts
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Climatic changes Social aspects
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Climatic changes Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Karibik
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Ozeanien
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Literatur
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Kunst
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Klimaänderung
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Postkolonialismus
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Humanökologie
Abstract:
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 Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, 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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1215/9781478005582
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478005582
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