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Unrest in the nebulae
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- Book Synopsis
- 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."
- About The Author
- Gitan Djeli is a London-based Mauritian writer, editor, and scholar of cultural studies whose creative writing has appeared in Poetry, The Funambulist, adda, and Doek!, among others.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781478038504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, (24 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 86
- Weight
- 167.83 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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