03858oam 2200697I 450 991033070800332120231102171122.01-4780-9002-21-4780-0558-0(CKB)4100000008154011(MiAaPQ)EBC57716911098245876(OCoLC)1126114873(MdBmJHUP)musev2_89098(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35855(PPN)252682815(EXLCZ)99410000000815401120190424d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAllegories of the Anthropocene /Elizabeth M. DeLoughreyDurham :Duke University Press,2019.1 online resource (281 pages)1-4780-0471-1 1-4780-0410-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Climatic changesEffect of human beings onClimatic changes in literatureHuman ecology in artCaribbean literature21st centuryThemes, motivesPacific Island literature21st centuryThemes, motivesArt, Caribbean21st centuryThemes, motivesArt, Pacific Island21st centuryThemes, motivesPostcolonialism in literaturePostcolonialism and the artsClimatic changesSocial aspectsCaribbean AreaClimatic changesSocial aspectsIslands of the PacificClimatic changesEffect of human beings on.Climatic changes in literature.Human ecology in art.Caribbean literatureThemes, motives.Pacific Island literatureThemes, motives.Art, CaribbeanThemes, motives.Art, Pacific IslandThemes, motives.Postcolonialism in literature.Postcolonialism and the arts.Climatic changesSocial aspectsClimatic changesSocial aspects809/.93355609729DeLoughrey Elizabeth M.1967-943837NDDNDDBOOK9910330708003321Allegories of the Anthropocene2152420UNINA