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

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

Author/creator	Allewaert, Monique
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Description	254 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Human ecology--Southern States --History --18th century. Human ecology--Caribbean Area --History --18th century. Human beings--Effect of environment on --Southern States --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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013010129
ISBN	9780816677276 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780816677283 (pb : alk. paper)

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