Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature

ISBN-13: 9781316648643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 223 str.

Cajetan Iheka

Opis

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa.

Recenzje

'Iheka's Naturalizing Africa is a book that is uncanny in its prescience. Marshalling synthesizing a range of debates in environmental, animal, and African literary studies, it not only elaborates the grounds of current debates in these fields but also illuminates a pathway for what is to come. This is going to be of tremendous influence for a very long time.' Ato Quayson, Professor and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

Spis treści

Introduction: naturalizing Africa; 1. African literature and the aesthetics of proximity; 2. Beyond human agency: Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war; 3. Rethinking postcolonial resistance: the Niger Delta example; 4. Resistance from the ground: agriculture, gender, and manual labor; Epilogue: rehabilitating the human.