Aspects Ecocritiques de l'imaginaire Africain / Sous la direction de Etienne-Marie Lassi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lassi, Étienne-Marie.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Africa.

Ecology.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is important to question some recurrent commonplaces about the (post)colonial order and the preservation of the environment if one wants to reconcile ecocriticism and postcolonial theories. For instance, were pre-colonial societies devoid of ecological awareness? Is the environmental commitment of the developed world a kind of repentance for the damages that its material comfort has caused to the environment? Are the underprivileged people of the third world so concerned with their daily survival that they become unable to advocate for the protection of the environment? Can we conclude, given the conflicting views of the industrialized countries and their post-colonial counterparts on ecology, that issues of human development and those of the conservation of the environment are incompatible? These are some of the questions that the essays in Aspects Ecocritiques de l'imaginaire africain attempt to answer, with reference to African literature.

Contents:

Introduction. De l'engagement sociopolitique à la conscience

ecologique : les enjeux environnementaux dans la critique

postcoloniale / Étienne-Marie Lassi

Le sentiment de la nature chez Abdou Salam Baco : vers une

autobiographie naturelle / Christophe Cosker

Espace diegetique, facteur de significations de la fiction

romanesque de Sony Labou Tansi / Charles Yaovi Mensah Kouma

Litterature orale et questions environnementales en Afrique

subsaharienne : cas du Mutanga chez les Lega de la Republique

Democratique du Congo / Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele

Migrations, environnement et mimesis africaine chez Zakes Mda Herve Tchumkam

Lecture ecocritique des paysages de l'enfance dans les albums

illustres de Dominique Mwankumi / Anne Cirella-Urrutia

Nature et ecologisme dans les romans camerounais francophones :

les cas de Les fiances du grand fleuve de Samuel Mvolo, Manemba ou

les souvenirs d'un enfant de brousse de Joseph Marie Essomba et L'a-fric de Jacques Fame Ndongo / Jean Marie Wounfa

La nature re-enchantee de Bessora : la petro-critique par les mythes dans Petroleum / Étienne-Marie Lassi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2013).

ISBN:

9789956791989

9956791989

OCLC:

858764777