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020			_a9781478025702
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00018 _d: 26/05/2024
082			_a810.9 LUC
100			_aLuciano, Dana.
245			_aHow the Earth Feels _b: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States. _c/ Dana Luciano.
260			_a, Durhan _b: Duke University Press _c, 2024.
300			_axii,242p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2046
520			_aIn How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth’s history geologically involved confronting the dynamic nature of inorganic matter over vast spans of time, challenging preconceived notions of human agency. Nineteenth-century Americans came to terms with these changes through a fusion of fact and imagination that Luciano calls geological fantasy. Geological fantasy transformed the science into a sensory experience, sponsoring affective and even erotic connections to the matter of the earth. At the same time, it was often used to justify accounts of evolution that posited a modern, civilized, and Anglo-American whiteness as the pinnacle of human development. By tracing geology’s relationship with biopower, Luciano illuminates how imagined connections with the earth shaped American dynamics of power, race, and colonization.
650			_aGeology
650			_aGeological writings
650			_aGeological fantasy
700			_aDana Luciano.
942			_cBOOK
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