Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet How
might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a
form of protest-in short, the Earth as an angry planet? Many novels
from the end of the millennium did just that, centering around an
Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic,
nonanthropogenic change. In Angry Planet, Anne Stewart uses this
literature to develop a theoretical framework for reading with and
through planetary motion. Typified by authors like Colson
Whitehead, Octavia Butler, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work
anticipates contemporary critical concepts of entanglement,
withdrawal, delinking, and resurgence, angry planet fiction
coalesced in the 1990s and delineated the contours of a decolonial
ontology. Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and
Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of
globalization in the 1990s from the perspective of the American
Third World, construing it as the era that first made connections
among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles.
By synthesizing these major intersections of thought production in
the final decades of the twentieth century, Stewart offers a recent
history of dissent to the young movements of the twenty-first
century. As she reveals, this knowledge is crucial to incipient
struggles of our contemporary era, as our political imaginaries
grapple with the major challenges of white nationalism and climate
change denial.
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