Conclusion: The angry planet in the anthropocene. 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.
Summary:
"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 1990s-the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles"-- Provided by publisher.
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