Naturalizing Africa

• Verfasst von: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Naturalizing Africa
• Titelzusatz: ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
• Verf.angabe: Cajetan Iheka (University of Alabama)
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2018
• Umfang: xii, 211 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-206 ; Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19917-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)Subsaharisches Afrika / (s)Natur <Motiv> / (s)Umwelt <Motiv> / (s)Literatur / (s)Englisch
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HP 1240
• K10plus-PPN: 892755482

Abstract

"The book makes four interventions: (1) 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; (2) it rethinks the dominant notion of agency based on intentionality and proposes ways of conceiving distributed agency or varieties of agency functioning between human beings and other environmental actors; (3) it broadens our perspective on violent resistance and its complicity in ecological degradation, thus reopening the question of violence that earlier marked the struggle for liberation by such figures as Frantz Fanon; and (4) it contributes to the larger project of envisioning alternative, sustainable ecosystems."--Publisher's summary