Allegories of the Anthropocene

Allegories of the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781478005582
ISBN-13 : 1478005580
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Book Synopsis Allegories of the Anthropocene by : Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey

Download or read book Allegories of the Anthropocene written by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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