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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Ecocriticism in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Human-animal relationships--Africa.

Human-animal relationships.

Human-plant relationships--Africa.

Human-plant relationships.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Africa.

Human beings.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Africa.

Nature.

Human ecology--Africa.

Human ecology.

War--Environmental aspects.

Violence--Environmental aspects.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Africa.

Human ecology in literature.

Violence--Environmental aspects--Africa.

Violence.

War--Environmental aspects--Africa.

War.

Physical Description:

xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107199170

1107199174

OCLC:

991639678