Justice and human rights in the African imagination : we, too, are humans / Chielozona Eze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eze, Chielozona, author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Africa series

Routledge contemporary Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Africa.

Human rights.

Restorative justice.

Africa.

Justice.

Restorative justice--Africa.

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Human rights in literature.

Human rights in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 171 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses variousquests forjustice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

036770854X

9780367708542

OCLC:

1202761173

Publisher Number:

99987463650