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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Allewaert, Monique
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Human ecology > Southern States > History > 18th century. Human ecology > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century. Human beings > Southern States > Effect of nature on > 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 century.

Table of 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.