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

By: Allewaert, MoniqueContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: 254 p. : illISBN: 9780816689002 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Human ecology -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century | Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century | Human beings -- Effect of nature on -- Southern States -- 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 304.20975/0903 LOC classification: GF504.S68 | A55 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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