Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821419781 ISBN 13: 9780821419786

Verlag: Ohio University Press, 2011

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"A groundbreaking intervention into African, postcolonial, literary, and environmental studies." "Ecocritical studies have long neglected the postcolonial regions of the world, so it's refreshing and timely to see a collection of essays focused entirely on Africa. This collection is the first of its kind and as such is positioned to make a vital intervention in postcolonial, ecocritical, and African studies." -- Elizabeth DeLoughrey, author of Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment

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Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis. Contributors analyze writings by colonial administrators and literary authors, as well as by such prominent African activists and writers as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mia Couto, Nadine Gordimer, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Ben Okri. These postcolonial ecocritical readings focus on dialogue not only among disciplines but also among different visions of African environments. In the process, Environment at the Margins posits the possibility of an ecocriticism that will challenge and move beyond marginalizing, limiting visions of an imaginary Africa. Contributors: Jane Carruthers Mara Goldman Amanda Hammar Jonathan Highfield David McDermott Hughes Roderick P. Neumann Rob Nixon Anthony Vital Laura Wright

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• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0821419781
• ISBN 13: 9780821419786
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Caminero-Santangelo Byron, Myers Garth