Forest imaginaries : how African novels think / Ainehi Edoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edoro, Ainehi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African fiction--History and criticism.

African fiction.

African fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

African fiction (English).

African fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Forests in literature.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

African fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel's formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: How I Found the Forest

Introduction: Rethinking African Fiction from the Forest

1. Thinking Like a Forest: Fragmentation in African Storytelling

Part I. The Tragedy of the Forest

2. A Fairy Tale of Blood: Or Why Imperialism Is Always About Death

3. Chinua Achebe's Evil Forest: A Critique of Literary Violence

Part II. The Love of the Forest

4. The Endless Forest in Amos Tutuola's Spectacular Fiction

5. Nnedi Okorafor's Aquatic Forest: Corals, Aliens, and Storytelling Beyond the Human

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 16, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Edoro, Ainehi Forest Imaginarie

ISBN:

9780231563369

0231563361

9780231565073

0231565070

OCLC:

1559964225

Publisher Number:

CIPO000314152

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license