Allegories of the Anthropocene / / Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey

• Autore: DeLoughrey Elizabeth M. <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 809/.93355609729
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Allegories of the Anthropocene
• ISBN: 1-4780-9002-2; 1-4780-0558-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910330708003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II