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Author

Allewaert, Monique.

Title Ariel's ecology [electronic resource] : plantations, personhood, and colonialism in the American tropics / Monique Allewaert.

Imprint

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	254 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Human ecology -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
	Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century.
	Human beings -- Effect of nature 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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780816677276 (hc : alk. paper)
	9780816677283 (pb : alk. paper)
	9780816689002 (electronic bk.)