Naturalizing Africa : ecological violence, agency and postcolonial resistance in African literature

Author/Creator:: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, author
Publication/Creation:: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: Naturalizing Africa : ecological violence, agency and postcolonial resistance in African literature / Cajetan Iheka

Related/Included Titles:: Introduction : naturalizing Africa --
African literature and the aesthetics of proximity --
Beyond human agency : Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war --
Rethinking postcolonial resistance : the Niger Delta example --
Resistance from the ground : agriculture, gender, and manual labor --
Epilogue : rehabilitating the human.

Subjects:: Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Human-animal relationships--Africa
Human-plant relationships--Africa
Human beings--Effect of environment on--Africa
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Africa
Human ecology--Africa
Human ecology in literature
Violence--Environmental aspects--Africa
War--Environmental aspects--Africa

Table of Contents:: Introduction : naturalizing Africa -- African literature and the aesthetics of proximity -- Beyond human agency : Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war -- Rethinking postcolonial resistance : the Niger Delta example -- Resistance from the ground : agriculture, gender, and manual labor -- Epilogue : rehabilitating the human.
Summary:: "The book makes four interventions: (1) it extends the domain of African literary studies from one primarily focused on humans to one that explores the complexities of human-nonhuman relations in the different sites under consideration; (2) it rethinks the dominant notion of agency based on intentionality and proposes ways of conceiving distributed agency or varieties of agency functioning between human beings and other environmental actors; (3) it broadens our perspective on violent resistance and its complicity in ecological degradation, thus reopening the question of violence that earlier marked the struggle for liberation by such figures as Frantz Fanon; and (4) it contributes to the larger project of envisioning alternative, sustainable ecosystems."--Publisher's summary.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm