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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838377603321

Autore

Stewart Anne

Titolo

Angry Planet : Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2023

©2022

ISBN

9781452968650

9781517914110

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Disciplina

813/.5409

Soggetti

Decolonization in literature

Ecology in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Literary criticism

Earth (Planet) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 Hector 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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--