Forest imaginaries : how African novels think /
"The forest is a constant, if critically underrecognized, feature of African storytelling and literature. In African literature forests play a crucial role in the shaping of the African imagination and in novels by writers from across the continent and throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, th...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: How I Found the Forest
- Introduction: Rethinking African Fiction from the Forest
- The Forest as Method: Fragmentation in African Storytelling
- Part I. The Tragedy of the Forest
- A Fairy Tale of Blood: The Forest Logic of Empire in Early African Fiction
- Achebe's Evil Forest: Narrative Form and the Politics of Life and Death
- Part II. The Love of the Forest
- The Iterative Novel: Repetition and Knowledge-Making in Tutuola's Endless Forest
- Lessons from an Aquatic Forest: Corals, Aliens and Storytelling Beyond the Human.