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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Agriculture and empire : excavating plantation soil
• Planetarity : militarized radiations
• Accelerations : globalization and states of waste
• Oceanic futures : interspecies worldings
• An island is a world.

Author/Creator:

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Allegories of the Anthropocene [by DeLoughrey, E.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Allegories of the Anthropocene [by DeLoughrey, E.M.] (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9781478004103; LCCN 2018050151)

Subjects:

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

2000-2099

Climatic changes

Caribbean literature

Themes, motives

Pacific Island literature

Art, Caribbean

Art, Pacific Island

Climatic changes — Social aspects

Pacific Ocean — Islands of the Pacific

Caribbean Area

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2019.
digitized; 2019; HathiTrust Digital Library; committed to preserve
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 269 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN849.C3 D456 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781478005582 (electronic book)
1478005580 (electronic book)
9781478004103 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
147800410X (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9781478004714 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1478004711 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019006483

OCLC Numbers:

1081380012