Ariel's Ecology : Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics.

By: Allewaert, MoniqueMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816689002Subject(s): Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century | Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Psychological aspects | Human beings -- Effect of nature on -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century | Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century | Human ecology -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century | Plantation life -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century | Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ariel's Ecology : Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American TropicsDDC classification: 304.20975/0903 LOC classification: GF504.S68 -- A55 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Tempest in the Plantation Zone -- I -- 1. Swamp Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone -- 2. Plant Life: Tropical Vegetation, Animate Matter, and Cosmopolitical Form -- II -- 3. On Parahumanity: Creole Stories and the Suspension of the Human -- 4. Persons without Objects: Afro-American Materialisms from Fetishes to Personhood -- III -- 5. Involving the Universe in Ruins: Sansay's Haitian Anabiography -- Epilogue: Afterlives of Ariel's Ecology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Monique Allewaert contends that on eighteenth-century American plantations, labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, Ariel's Ecology explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and colonial metropoles.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Tempest in the Plantation Zone -- I -- 1. Swamp Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone -- 2. Plant Life: Tropical Vegetation, Animate Matter, and Cosmopolitical Form -- II -- 3. On Parahumanity: Creole Stories and the Suspension of the Human -- 4. Persons without Objects: Afro-American Materialisms from Fetishes to Personhood -- III -- 5. Involving the Universe in Ruins: Sansay's Haitian Anabiography -- Epilogue: Afterlives of Ariel's Ecology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Monique Allewaert contends that on eighteenth-century American plantations, labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, Ariel's Ecology explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and colonial metropoles.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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