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Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

by Kir Kuiken

Caribbean writing in the frame of geopoetics

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Caribbean writing in the frame of geopoetics

Kir Kuiken’s study traces geopoetics from the late eighteenth century to the present, connecting European Romantic writing with contemporary Caribbean authors. Its framework begins in geology and considers a tension between an Earth that exists independently of human life and the same Earth as the basis of human society. The chapters analyze Caribbean writers through this idea of an indifferent Earth, bringing literary criticism into conversation with questions about nature, politics, and human dependence on the planet.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of literary criticism focused on nature and environmental thought
  • Those interested in Caribbean literature alongside European Romanticism
  • Students of literature, geology, and the relationship between human society and the Earth

Themes

GeopoeticsCaribbean literatureEuropean RomanticismNature and the EarthHuman society and planetary independence

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Book overview

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contemporary Caribbean writers. Framed by its origin in geology, geopoetics unfolds the aesthetic and political consequences of the Earth's independence from human existence alongside the realization that this fundamentally independent Earth is also the foundation of all human society. Highlighting this notion of an indifferent Earth, each chapter in this boundary-pushing new book offers an analysis of a Caribbean author--

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