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oapen-20.500.12657-248992021-11-12T16:00:17Z Allegories of the Anthropocene DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M. anthropocene environmental humanities blue humanities climate change postcolonial studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 -::DSBH5 Literary studies: post-colonial literature 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 Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, 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. 2019-07-18 10:00:32 2020-04-01T10:13:21Z 2020-04-01T10:13:21Z 2019 book 1005202 OCN: 1081380012 9781478004103 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24899 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478005582.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/allegories-of-the-anthropocene Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478005582 10.1215/9781478005582 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478004103 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 280 Durham, NC 2019-07-18 09:56:30, Funder name: Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and the UCLA Library/Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem/Acronym: TOME open access
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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 Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, 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.
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