Poetry from Spaceship Earth: Empire and Ecology in Post-1945 American Poetry - Couverture souple

Rahimtoola, Samia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 168597063X ISBN 13 : 9781685970635

Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2026

Synopsis

In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of “spaceship Earth” was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the shipping lanes of the U.S.-occupied Pacific, Palestinian refugee camps, and the internal colonies of segregated nations. At its heart was a new ideology and infrastructure of managing, administering, and rationalizing nature through which Western powers sought to maintain their grip on a decolonizing planet.

Poetry from Spaceship Earth retrieves a diverse array of postwar American poets―Robert Duncan, June Jordan, Joanne Kyger, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Olson―who contested and cultivated alternatives to this emergent mode of environmentalism. By placing the major innovations of postwar poetry into conversation with environmental politics, Cold War science and technology studies, and postcolonial and Black studies, Samia Rahimtoola develops an original theoretical and historical account of the racial and colonial logics that underpin the supposedly neutral project of managing nature.
 

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À propos de l'auteur

Samia Rahimtoola is assistant professor of English at Bowdoin College. She is author of the creative work Revelation Desert Flow, and her writing has appeared in Paideuma, Post45, and ISLE, among others. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Iowa Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 168597063X
• ISBN 13: 9781685970635
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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