Contents
Introduction: Messages from the Angry Planet
1. Terraforming the New World: Thomas Pynchon’s
Mason & Dixon and Colson Whitehead’s
The Intuitionist
2. First World Problems: John Edgar Wideman’s
Philadelphia Fire and Karen Tei Yamashita’s
Tropic of Orange
3. Third World Liberation: Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Almanac of the Dead and Héctor Tobar’s
The Tattooed Soldier
4. The Fourth World Resurgent: Gerald Vizenor’s
Bearheart and Octavia Butler’s
Parable of the Sower
Conclusion: The Angry Planet in the Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index