{"product_id":"unrest-in-the-nebulae-9781478033608","title":"Unrest in the Nebulae","description":"In \u003ci\u003eunrest in the nebulae\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 of 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, \u003ci\u003eunrest in the nebulae\u003c\/i\u003e takes seriously Sylvia Wynter's invitation to engage \"a new science of the word.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gitan Djeli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Writing Matters!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478033608","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486854471817,"sku":"9781478033608","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9850853c-0d36-4664-ae6b-571b7bd6c84c.jpg?v=1775543966","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/unrest-in-the-nebulae-9781478033608","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}