Emenyonu / Iheka / Newell ALT 38 Environmental Transformations

African Literature Today
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-790-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 38, 205 Seiten

Reihe: African Literature Today

Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Iheka, Cajetan

Newell, Stephanie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Green, Louise

Masamaka, Jerome

Mthatiwa, Syned

Clarke, Michelle

Egya, Sule Emmanuel

Nwokocha, Sandra C.

Chinaka, Psalms E.

Newell, Stephanie

Iheka, Cajetan

Ngongkum, Eunice

Hummel, Katherine E.

McCorkle, James

Wahu-Muchiri, Ng'ang'a

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Cajetan Iheka
Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Stephanie Newell
Literary Totemism & its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho's Literary Bees - Jerome Masamaka
Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa's David Mogo Godhunter & "The End of the World as We Know It" - Louise Green
Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a "Modernising" City in Nigerian Poetry - Sule Emmanuel Egya
Poetic Style & Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo's Poems - Syned Mthatiwa
Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow - Sandra C. Nwokocha
Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & the Politics of Form - Katherine E. Hummel
"It is the Writer's Place to Stand with the Oppressed": Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong's Blot on the Landscape & The Tears of the Earth - Eunice Ngongkum
Black Atlantic Futurism & Toxic Discourses in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix: An Ecocritical Reading - Michelle Clarke
Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler & Nnedi Okorafor - James McCorkle
Interview with Kenyan Novelist, Yvonne Owuor - Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Poems & Short Stories
TRIBUTE Pa Gabriel Okara (1918 - 2019) - An African Literary Colossus on Ancestral Journey - Psalms E. Chinaka
REVIEWS edited by Obi Nwakanma

Über Autor(innen)

Emenyonu Ernest N.:
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).Iheka Cajetan:
CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama.Newell Stephanie:
Stephanie Newell is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.Newell Stephanie:
Stephanie Newell is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.Iheka Cajetan:
CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama.Emenyonu Ernest N.:
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).