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Title: | Eco-critical literature: regreening African landscapes |
Editor: | Okuyade, Ogaga |
Year: | 2013 |
Pages: | 353 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | New York |
Publisher: | African Heritage Press |
ISBN: | 0979085888; 9780979085888 |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | novels ecology literary criticism |
Abstract: | This book examines representations of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. The importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment forms the setting, context, and thematic discourse of the works and authors studied. The chapters deal with the effects of colonial land policies in two Zimbabwean novels (Maurice Taonezvi Vambe); landscaping in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's 'Wizard of the crow' (Ifeyinwa Okolo); eco-activism in Zakes Mda's 'Heart of redness' and Tanure Ojaide's 'The activist' (Enajite Ojaruega); eco-activism in Isidore Okpewho's 'Tides' and Ken Saro-Wiwa's 'A month and a day' (Charles Cliff Feghabo); environment in Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall apart' and 'Arrow of God' (Gloria Ernest-Samuel); degraded environment and destabilized women in Kaine Agary's 'Yellow-yellow' (Sunny Awhefeada); the Niger Delta, environment, and the politics of survival in Kaine Agary's 'Yellow-yellow' (Ngozi Chuma-Udeh); Women as eco-activists in Vincent-Egbuson's 'Love my planet' (Ovwoke Dorcas Owhofasa); eco-literacy and ecological justice in Wangari Maathai's 'Unbowed: a memoir' (Ogaga Okuyade); nature and social responsibility in Rachel Carson's 'Silent spring' and Tanure Ojaida's 'The tale of the Harmattan' (Roselyne M. Jua); the politics of otherness in Tanure Ojaide's 'Delta blues' and 'Home songs' (James Tsaaior); the dialectics of de-commodified environment in Tanure Ojaide's 'Daydream of ants' and Niyi Osundare's 'The eye of the earth' (Uzoechi Nwagbara); a stylistic reading of Hope Eghagha's 'Rhythms of the Last Testament' and 'The governor's lodge and other poems' (Macaulay Mowarin); Niger Delta dystopia and environmental despoliation in Tanure Ojaide's poetry (Obari Gomba); Eco-survival in the poetry of G. 'Ebinyo Ogbowei (Bernard Stephen); Poetics of environmental degradation in Tanure Ojaide's 'Delta Blues' (Olusegun Adekoya); eco-ing Bole Butake's concerns in 'Lake God, the survivors' and 'And palm-wine will flow' (Joyce Ashuntantang); destabilizing the images of the African forest as a conceptual space for renegotiating African identities during the Zimbabwean armed liberation struggle in the film 'Flame' (1996) (Urther Rwafa). [ASC Leiden abstract] |