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Angry Planet

Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World
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Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet How might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a form of protest—in short, the Earth as an angry planet? Many novels from the end of the millennium did just that, centering around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. In Angry Planet, Anne Stewart uses this literature to develop a theoretical framework for reading with and through planetary motion. Typified by authors like Colson Whitehead, Octavia Butler, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work anticipates contemporary critical concepts of entanglement, withdrawal, delinking, and resurgence, angry planet fiction coalesced in the 1990s and delineated the contours of a decolonial ontology. Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the 1990s from the perspective of the American Third World, construing it as the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles. By synthesizing these major intersections of thought production in the final decades of the twentieth century, Stewart offers a recent history of dissent to the young movements of the twenty-first century. As she reveals, this knowledge is crucial to incipient struggles of our contemporary era, as our political imaginaries grapple with the major challenges of white nationalism and climate change denial.

Author Biography:

Anne Stewart is a settler scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Treaty 1 territory. She works as a lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of British Columbia. Her writing has been published in MELUS, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Sprout: An Eco- Urban Poetry Journal, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and The E3W Review of Books. 
Release date Australia
January 17th, 2023
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Pages
264
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Dimensions
140x216x13
ISBN-13
9781517914110
Product ID
35714617

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