"DeLoughrey brings her considerable background in environmental humanities and postcolonial literature studies to bear in this volume. . . . This book is not to be missed by those interested in keeping up with recent conversations, across the environmental humanities, around issues of the Anthropocene." — L. C. Bayne, Choice
“Allegoriesof the Anthropocene brings human histories of dispossession, toxicity, and creative survival to the fore where they might get lost in the geologic fixation on sediment. . . . It is powerful that this rich and careful book should end with a turn to the reader, showing how allegory at its most potent is about the entanglement, not leap, between part/whole or island/planet.” — Isabel Lockhart, Journal of British Studies
"By decolonising geological discourse, as well as scholarship about climate change more broadly, Allegories of the Anthropocene challenges climate change epistemologies and realities to illuminate the continued, violent atmospheric changes confronting spaces formerly colonised as the consequence of their imperial and military repression and exploitation." — Giulia Champion, Ecozon@
“DeLoughrey’s new book is to be strongly recommended for its highly original tack: focusing upon the rising importance of allegory as a way of making sense of times of rupture and catastrophic environmental change.” — Jonathan Pugh, Island Studies Journal
“Allegories of the Anthropocene is a book of oceanic reach, in every sense. Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey's transformative thinking will reverberate across the environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, and the Anthropocene debates for many years to come.” — Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
“Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey is one on the world’s leading authorities of island cultures and imaginaries in the context of modern imperial history and of economic and environmental globalization more generally. Her innovative, indispensable, and inventive book, Allegories of the Anthropocene, will immediately become a must-read in the environmental humanities, taking its place as an instant classic.” — Joni Adamson, Professor and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative, Arizona State University