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

Allewaert, Monique.

Ariel's ecology plantations, personhood, and colonialism in the American tropics / [electronic resource] : Monique Allewaert. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. - 254 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780816689002 (electronic bk.)




Human ecology--History--Southern States--18th century.
Human ecology--History--Caribbean Area--18th century.
Human beings--Effect of nature on--History--Southern States--18th century.
Human beings--Effect of environment on--History--Caribbean Area--18th century.
Human beings--Effect of environment on--Psychological aspects.
Plantation life--History--Southern States--18th century.
Plantation life--History--Caribbean Area--18th century.


Electronic books.

GF504.S68 / A55 2013

304.20975/0903