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

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The book makes four interventions. 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. It rethinks the dominant notion of agency based on intentionality an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Ecocriticism.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Human-animal relationships > Africa.
Human-plant relationships > Africa.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Africa.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Africa.
Human ecology > Africa.
Human ecology in literature.
Violence > Environmental aspects > Africa.
War > Environmental aspects > Africa.
Table of 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.