Poetry from spaceship earth : empire and ecology in post-1945 American poetry /
"In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of "spaceship Earth" was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the shipping lanes of the U.S.-occupied Pacific, Palestinian refugee camps, and the internal co...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2026]
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| Series: | Contemporary North American poetry series.
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| Summary: | "In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of "spaceship Earth" was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the shipping lanes of the U.S.-occupied Pacific, Palestinian refugee camps, and the internal colonies of segregated nations. At its heart was a new ideology and infrastructure of managing, administering, and rationalizing nature through which Western powers sought to maintain their grip on a decolonizing planet. Poetry from Spaceship Earth retrieves a diverse array of postwar American poets--Robert Duncan, June Jordan, Joanne Kyger, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Olson--who contested and cultivated alternatives to this emergent mode of environmentalism. By placing the major innovations of postwar poetry into conversation with environmental politics, Cold War science and technology studies, and postcolonial and Black studies, Samia Rahimtoola develops an original theoretical and historical account of the racial and colonial logics that underpin the supposedly neutral project of managing nature." "Showcases postwar poetry as a resource for transforming the colonial paradigm of post-1945 environmentalism towards more just and equitable futures. It argues that poets contested this paradigm as it emerged within Cold War responses to decolonization"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 263 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781685970635 168597063X |