Allegories of the Anthropocene

Resource Information

The work Allegories of the Anthropocene represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Allegories of the Anthropocene

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey

Creator

• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-

Author

• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-

Subject

• Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
• Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Islands of the Pacific
• Climatic changes in literature
• Human ecology in art
• Pacific Island literature -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
• Postcolonialism and the arts
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Art, Caribbean -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
• Art, Pacific Island -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
• Caribbean literature -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
• Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

NDD

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PN849.C3

LC item number

D44 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography