Unrest in the Nebulae

di Gitan Djeli (Autore)

Duke University Press, 2026

In unrest in the nebulae, Gitan Djeli wields prose poetry to archive five hundred years of exploitative colonization, ecocide, extinction, militarization and deportation, slavery, indenture, negotiated nationhood, postcolonial plantation structures, and apologist histories. Writing in a queer anticolonial poetics, and using lines of Kreol, Gitan Djeli mines the tension that emerges between colonialism and language, disarticulating the myth-making aesthetics of the colonial world. She tells the story of the ‘other slavery’ in the Indian Ocean and its histories of enslavement and indenture through a subversive, fragmented poetics, and often from the perspective its geologic witnesses – a misnamed ocean or the range of mountains within it or the volcanic idea of islands. In a charge of resistance to the catastrophe of modernity, unrest in the nebulae takes seriously Sylvia Wynter’s invitation to engage “a new science of the word.”

• Autore: Gitan Djeli
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Collana: Writing Matters!
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 86 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 572 gr.
• EAN: 9781478033608

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