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In 'Allegories of the Anthropocene' Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers-including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellan, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber-whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.

Climatic changes --- Climatic changes in literature. --- Human ecology in art. --- Caribbean literature --- Pacific Island literature --- Art, Caribbean --- Art, Pacific Island --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism and the arts. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Themes, motives. --- Social aspects --- Climatic changes in art --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Arts and postcolonialism --- Arts --- Pacific Island art --- Caribbean art --- Oceanian literature --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change --- anthropocene --- environmental humanities --- blue humanities --- climate change --- postcolonial studies

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Commonwealth literature (English) --- Ecology in literature --- Human ecology in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Ecocriticism --- History and criticism --- Ecology in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- History and criticism. --- Écologie --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Écocritique --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Écologie --- Littérature anglophone --- Écocritique --- Dans la littérature

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This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature.

Ecocriticism. --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Ecology --- Ecocriticism

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Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribbean "nature" and "culture," engendered by this unique and troubled history, has not heretofore been brought into productive relation. "Caribbean Literature and the Environment" redresses this omission by gathering together eighteen essays that consider the relationship between human and natural history. The result is the first volume to examine the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. By creating a dialogue between the growing field of ecological literary studies, which has primarily been concerned with white settler narratives, and Caribbean cultural production, especially the region's negotiation of complex racial and ethnic legacies, these essays explore the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean. The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, among others, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphael Confiant.

Caribbean literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Ecology in literature --- Nature in literature --- Littérature caribéenne --- Écologie --- Nature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Caribbean literature