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Allegories of the Anthropocene (Paperback)
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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
Jetnil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellan, 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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