Beschreibung:
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey is a Professor with appointments in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books, including Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures. The author's proceeds from the sale of this book go to The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).
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