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.