TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luciano, Dana
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024//
TI  - How the earth feels: geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States
T3  - Anima: critical race studies otherwise
PB  - Duke University Press
CY  - Durham
KW  - Geology in literature
KW  - Geology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - American literature
KW  - Géologie dans la littérature
KW  - Géologie - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
KW  - Littérature américaine - Histoire - 19e siècle
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
KW  - NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
KW  - Geology - Social aspects
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9781478027843
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3744048
LA  - English
N1  - Dana Luciano
ID  - 1887177027
ER  -