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Author:

Allewaert, Monique.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

254 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--Southern States--History--18th century.
Human ecology--Caribbean Area--History--18th century.
Human beings--Southern States--History--History--18th century.
Human beings--History--Caribbean Area--History--18th century.
Human beings--Psychological aspects.--Psychological aspects.
Plantation life--Southern States--History--18th century.
Plantation life--Caribbean Area--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : tempest in the plantation zone -- Swamp sublime : ecology and resistance in the American plantation zone -- Plant life : tropical vegetation, agencied 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.

ISBN:

081667728X (pb : alk. paper)
9780816677283 (pb : alk. paper)
0816677271 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816677276 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816563764

LCCN:

2013010129

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)