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Eco-Critical Literature : Regreening African Landscapes /
This book critically examines the representations, constructions, and imaginings of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. It offers incisive and critical perspectives on the importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between hu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
African Heritage Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : African Cultural Art Forms, Eco-activism, and (Eco)-logical Consciousness
- Representations of the Effects of Colonial Land Policies in two Zimbabwean Novels
- Landscaping as a Plot and Character Development Medium in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature : Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaide's The Activist
- Isidore Okpewho's Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwa's A Month and a Day : A Kinesis of Eco-activism from Theory to Praxis
- Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God
- Degraded Environment and Destabilized Women in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
- The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and the Politics of Survival in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
- Women as Victims, Environmentalists and Eco-activists in Vincent Egbuson's Love My Planet
- Can the Earth Be Belted? : Rethinking Eco-literacy and Ecological Justice in Wangari Maathai's Unbowed : A Memoir
- Nature and Social Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Tanure Ojaide's The Tale of the Harmattan : Cross-Border Studies in Social Responsibility
- Poetic Rites, Minority Rights, and the Politics of Otherness in Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues and Home Songs
- Transcending the Discontents of Global Capitalism : Toward the Dialectics of De-commodified Environment in Daydream of Ants and Niyi Osundare The Eye of the Earth
- Poetics of Environmental Agitation : A Stylistic Reading of Hope Eghagha's Rhythms of the Last Testament and The Governor's Lodge and Other Poems
- Niger Delta Dystopia and Environmental Despoliation in Tanure Ojaide's Poetry
- Eco-survival in the Poetry of G. 'Ebinyo Ogbowei
- Poetics of Environmental Degradation in Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues
- For Common Corn : Eco-ing Bole Butake's Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, and And Palm-Wine Will Flow
- Destabilizing the Images of the African Forest As a Conceptual Space for Renegotiating African Identities during the Zimbabwe Armed Liberation Struggle in the Film Flame (1996).