ISBN:
9781478025702
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9781478020967
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 242 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Anima
Series Statement:
critical race studies otherwise
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Luciano, Dana How the earth feels
Keywords:
c 1800 to c 1900
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19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
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Geology in literature
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Geology Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Geology History 19th century
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American literature History 19th century
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NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
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Conservation of the environment
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General & world history
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Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
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SOC069000
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Umweltschutz
Abstract:
"By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased knowledge of planetary life was used to racialize Native peoples as fossils and curiosities. Further, the geological fantasy served to cement the notion that the Earth had been preparing for the presence of humans, and that humans were in fact the ultimate expression of the Earth's teleological development in a both scientific and spiritual sense. Counterposing a range of texts-from early European and US geological texts to Indigenous accounts of earthquakes to African American men's anti-slavery writing featuring geological tropes-Luciano reveals the workings of the geological fantasy as it operated across the racial and biopolitical discourses of the nineteenth-century United States. Luciano offers a rich and historically nuanced account of how imagined relations with the non-human world have long served as a means of avoiding engagement with the dynamics of racial and colonial power"
Abstract:
Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world
Description / Table of Contents:
The "Fashionable Science" -- 'The Infinite Go-Before of the Present': Geological Time, Worldmaking, and Race in the Nineteenth Century -- Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes -- Romancing the Trace: Ichnology, Affect, Race -- Matters of Spirit: Vibrant Materiality and White Femme Geophilia -- The Natural History of Freedom: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking -- Ishmael's Anthropocenes and Others: Geological Fantasy in the Twentiethfirst Century.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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