Naturalizing Africa - Ecological Violence, Agency, Postcolonial Resistance in African

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Cajetan Iheka is an assistant professor of English, specializing in African and postcolonial literatures, at the University of Alabama. He is an editor for African Studies Review, the journal of the African Studies Association.

Summary

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a multi-disciplinary text, for both researchers and scholars of African Studies, the environment and postcolonial literature.

Product details

• Authors: Cajetan Iheka, Cajetan (University of Alabama) Iheka
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781316648643
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64864-3
• No. of pages: 223
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Pollution & threats to the environment, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, African History