Ariel's ecology : plantations, personhood, and colonialism in the American tropics /

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The author 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, this book expl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allewaert, Monique (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Temas:
1700-1799
Human ecology > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Human ecology > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Human beings > Southern States > Effect of nature on > History > 18th century.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Psychological aspects.
Plantation life > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Plantation life > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Êtres humains > Influence de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Êtres humains > Influence de l'environnement > Aspect psychologique.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Vie dans les plantations > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Human beings > Effect of environment on
Human ecology
Plantation life
Humanekologi > historia.
Människans påverkan på naturen.
Caribbean Area
Southern States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Tempest in the Plantation Zone
  • Swamp Sublime : Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone
  • Plant Life : Tropical Vegetation, Animate Matter, and Cosmopolitical Form
  • On Parahumanity : Creole Stories and the Suspension of the Human
  • Persons without Objects : Afro-American Materialisms from Fetishes to Personhood
  • Involving the Universe in Ruins : Sansay's Haitian Anabiography
  • Epilogue : Afterlives of Ariel's Ecology.

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