Beschreibung:
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 by using allegorical narratives.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Allegories of the Anthropocene 1 1. Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil 33 2. Planetarity: Militarized Radiations 63 3. Accelerations: Globalization and States of Waste 98 4. Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worldings 133 5. An Island Is a World 165 Notes 197 Index 257