Unrest in the Nebulae
by
Gitan Djeli
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Writing Matters!
ISBN-10
1478038500
ISBN-13
9781478038504
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 24th, 2026
Print length
86 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 1.00 cms
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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.”
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