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 series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Africa.

Human rights.

Africa.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 171 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Language Note:

English

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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good

Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice

Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses

Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition

Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity

Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking

Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003148272

1003148271

9781000376258

1000376257

9781000376272

1000376273

OCLC:

1237525497

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148272

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.