Naturalizing Africa

Author : Cajetan Iheka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199174
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalizing Africa written by Cajetan Iheka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michela Marcatelli
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539502
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalizing Inequality written by Michela Marcatelli and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the reproduction and legitimization of racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. Michela Marcatelli unravels this inequality paradox through an ethnography of water in a rural region of the country. She documents how calls to save nature have only deepened and naturalized inequality.

Author : Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376273
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination written by Chielozona Eze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.

Author : Nora Castle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031416953
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and Science Fiction written by Nora Castle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031407547
Total Pages : 1161 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa written by Obert Bernard Mlambo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Ogude
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000635686
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa written by James Ogude and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa. The continent is host to a myriad of environmental issues, largely resulting from its rich diversity of natural resources that have been historically subjected to exploitation. Colonial patterns of resource use and capital accumulation continue unabated, making environmental and related socio-political problems a dominant feature of African economies. The book pursues the manifestation of these problems through four themes: environmental justice, violent capitalocenes, indigenous knowledge, and climate change. The editors locate the book within the broad fields of political ecology and environmental geopolitics to highlight the intricate geographies of resource exploitation across Africa. It uniquely focuses on the socio-political and geopolitical dynamics associated with the exploitation of Africa’s natural resources and its people. The case studies from different parts of Africa tell a compelling story of resource exploitation, related issues of environmental degradation in a continent particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the continued plundering of its natural resources. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students from the interdisciplinary fields of the environmental humanities and environmental studies more broadly, as well as those studying political ecology, environmental policy, and natural resources with a specific focus on Africa.

Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351859374
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Literature written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138713864_oachapter4.pdf

Author : Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376257
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination written by Chielozona Eze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.

Author : Duncan M. Yoon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100930027X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature written by Duncan M. Yoon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

Author : Caitlin E. Stobie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350250201
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction written by Caitlin E. Stobie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice. Viewing recent fiction through the lens of new materialist theory – which challenges conventional, individual-based notions of human rights by asserting that all matter holds agency – this book argues that southern African women writers anticipate and exceed current feminist revivals of materialist thought. Not only do the authors question contemporary discourse framing abortion as either a confirmation of a woman's 'right to choose' or an unethical termination of human life, but they challenge conventional understandings of development, growth, and time. Through close readings of both literal gestation in the selected texts and the metaphorical reproduction of the post/colonial nation, this study advances the concept of reproductive agency, creating a range of queer ecocritical alternatives to tropes such as those of 'the Mother Country', 'Mother Africa', or 'the birth of a nation'. This study situates abortion narratives by Wilma Stockenström (translated by J. M. Coetzee), Zoë Wicomb, Yvonne Vera, and Bessie Head alongside contemporary postcolonial feminist theories, melding traditional beliefs with materialist views to reconsider the future of reproductive health matters in southern Africa. Merging queer ecocritical perspectives from materialism and postcolonialism, this study will appeal to students and researchers in the medical humanities, new materialisms, and postcolonial studies.