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

Iheka, Cajetan

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017

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Título:
Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature
Autor: Iheka, Cajetan
Assuntos: Ecocriticism ; Ecocriticism in literature ; Human beings ; Human beings-Effect of environment on-Africa ; Human ecology ; Human ecology in literature ; Human ecology-Africa ; Human-animal relationships ; Human-animal relationships-Africa ; Human-plant relationships ; Human-plant relationships-Africa ; Nature ; Nature-Effect of human beings on-Africa ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Violence ; Violence-Environmental aspects-Africa ; War ; War-Environmental aspects-Africa
Descrição: The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyses how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in Nigeria, ecologies of war in Somalia, and animal abuses. Analysing narratives by important African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Ben Okri, Iheka challenges the tendency to focus primarily on humans in the conceptualization of environmental problems, and instead focuses on how African literature demonstrates the interconnection and 'proximity' of human and nonhuman beings. Through this, Iheka ultimately proposes a revision of the idea of agency based on human intentionality in African literary studies and postcolonialism: that texts yoke the exploitation of Africans to the despoliation of the environment, and they recommend responsibility toward human and nonhuman beings as crucial for ecological sustainability and addressing climate change.
Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2017
Formato: 226
Idioma: Inglês

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

Iheka, Cajetan

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017

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