"By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased k...

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1. Verfasser:	Luciano, Dana (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham ; London Duke University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Anima: critical race studies otherwise
Schlagworte:	c 1800 to c 1900 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) Geology in literature Geology / Social aspects / United States / History / 19th century Geology / United States / History / 19th century American literature / History / 19th century NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century Conservation of the environment General & world history Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte SOC069000 Umweltschutz
Zusammenfassung:	"By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased knowledge of planetary life was used to racialize Native peoples as fossils and curiosities. Further, the geological fantasy served to cement the notion that the Earth had been preparing for the presence of humans, and that humans were in fact the ultimate expression of the Earth's teleological development in a both scientific and spiritual sense. Counterposing a range of texts-from early European and US geological texts to Indigenous accounts of earthquakes to African American men's anti-slavery writing featuring geological tropes-Luciano reveals the workings of the geological fantasy as it operated across the racial and biopolitical discourses of the nineteenth-century United States. Luciano offers a rich and historically nuanced account of how imagined relations with the non-human world have long served as a means of avoiding engagement with the dynamics of racial and colonial power"-- Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 242 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781478025702 9781478020967