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1 online resource |
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African literature today ; 38 |
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African literature today ; 38.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature -- Cajetan Iheka<br>Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature -- Stephanie Newell<br>Literary Totemism & its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho's Literary Bees -- Jerome Masamaka<br>Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa's <i>David Mogo Godhunter</i> & "The End of the World as We Know It" -- Louise Green<br>Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a "Modernising" City in Nigerian Poetry -- Sule Emmanuel Egya<br>Poetic Style & Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo's Poems -- Syned Mthatiwa<br>Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary's <i>Yellow Yellow</i> -- Sandra C. Nwokocha<br>Local Collisions: <i>Oil on Water</i>, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & the Politics of Form -- Katherine E. Hummel<br>"It is the Writer's Place to Stand with the Oppressed": Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong's <i>Blot on the Landscape</i> & <i>The Tears of the Earth</i> -- Eunice Ngongkum<br>Black Atlantic Futurism & Toxic Discourses in Nnedi Okorafor's <i>The Book of Phoenix: An Ecocritical Reading</i> -- Michelle Clarke<br>Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler & Nnedi Okorafor -- James McCorkle<br>Interview with Kenyan Novelist, Yvonne Owuor -- Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri<br>LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Poems & Short Stories<br>TRIBUTE Pa Gabriel Okara (1918 -- 2019) -- An African Literary Colossus on Ancestral Journey -- Psalms E. Chinaka<br>REVIEWS edited by Obi Nwakanma |
| Summary |
Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism
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Ecocriticism -- Africa
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Environmental literature -- Africa
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African literature
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Ecocriticism
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Environmental literature
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, editor.
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Newell, Stephanie, 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787447905 |
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1787447901 |
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