Allegories of the Anthropocene /
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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©2019
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Subjects
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Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Pacific Island literature
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Pacific Island literature /
Themes, motives.
Human ecology in art.
Climatic changes
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Climatic changes /
Social aspects.
Climatic changes in literature.
Climatic changes
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Climatic changes /
Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes
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Climatic changes /
Social aspects
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Climatic changes / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118395 /
Islands of the Pacific.
Climatic changes
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Climatic changes /
Social aspects
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Climatic changes / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118395 /
Caribbean Area.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Art, Pacific Island
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Art, Pacific Island / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005406 /
21st century
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Art, Pacific Island / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005406 / 21st century / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 /
Themes, motives.
Art, Caribbean
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Art, Caribbean / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95004657 /
21st century
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Art, Caribbean / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95004657 / 21st century / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 /
Themes, motives.
Pacific Island literature
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Pacific Island literature / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093917 /
21st century
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Pacific Island literature / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093917 / 21st century / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 /
Themes, motives.
Caribbean literature
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Caribbean literature / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020300 /
21st century
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Caribbean literature / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020300 / 21st century / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 /
Themes, motives.
Human ecology in art.
Climatic changes in literature.
Climatic changes
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Climatic changes /
Effect of human beings on.
Pacific Ocean
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Pacific Ocean /
Islands of the Pacific.
Caribbean Area.
- Summary
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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.
- Physical Description
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x, 269 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
- ISBN
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1478004711
9781478004714
147800410X
9781478004103
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