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E-book The World as Abyss : The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene

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In 1939 Martinican writer Aimé Césaire first published his book length poem variously translated as Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Return to My Native Land, or Journal of a Homecom-ing, in which this epigraph appears. As the colonial powers were taking the world into an era of mass destruction, Césaire drew upon a Caribbean imaginary to counterpose to the apocalyptic violence of so-called Western ‘reason’ (Jones 2010, 162). Césaire’s call was later famously echoed by another radical Martinican activist and intellectual, Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks, first published in 1952 (2021, 96). The World as Abyss is about a contemporary return to the Caribbean and the radical ‘abyssal’ call for the ending of the world, at a time in which Western ‘reason’ similarly appears to have led the world into an epoch of devasta-tion and destruction. This epoch is known as the Anthropocene, the fundamentally changed world of climate catastrophe and hab-itat and species extinction.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 PUG t

Penerbit

London : University of Westminster Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

123 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781915445315

Klasifikasi

301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Anthropology

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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