"unrest in the nebulae is a book of prose poetry that archives 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. The book halts genocidal narratives of exploration, conquering, possession, ownership and weaves in a cosmo-geological historiography while disrupting the vocabulary of war and economy that characterize narratives of nationalist history writing. The collection is in conversation with a lineage of Caribbean poetics and philosophy from Kamau Brathwaite to Sylvia Wynter and underlines the afterlives of slavery with post-independence prison institutions"-- Provided by publisher.