Abstract

My first book, Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World, is a study of 1990s US novels that explore the decolonial mandate of dismantling the world we live in under the capitalist mode of production—and of starting over. Written in genres ranging from historical realism to cli-fi apocalypse, and from a variety of subject positions, "decolonial fiction," in the context of Angry Planet, means the desire, as the protagonist of Colson Whitehead's 1999 The Intuitionist proposes, to "raze the city and cart off the rubble."1 These stories are about the radical reconfiguration of the material conditions produced by the legacies of settler and extractive colonialism on the North American continent. This... Read More.