Angry planet : decolonial fiction and the American third world /

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"Many novels from the end of the millennium center around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. Anne Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stewart, Anne, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
American fiction
Decolonization in literature
Ecology in literature
Planets in literature
Earth (Planet) > In literature.
Terre > Dans la littérature.
Earth (Planet)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Messages from the angry planet
  • Terraforming the New World: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Colson Whitehead's The institutionist
  • First world problems: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange
  • Third world liberation: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Héctor Tobar's The tattooed soldier
  • The fourth world resurgent: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower
  • Conclusion: The angry planet in the anthropocene.

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