{"product_id":"unrest-in-the-nebulae-9781478038504","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 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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478038504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Gitan Djeli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197324980405,"sku":"9781478038504","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_63b92946-41f4-41dc-b6d9-d153268ecf1d.jpg?v=1769623206","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unrest-in-the-nebulae-9781478038504","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}