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1 online resource (374 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: African Cultural Art Forms, Eco-activism, and (Eco)-logical Consciousness; 1. Representations of the Effects of Colonial Land Policies in two Zimbabwean Novels; 2. Landscaping as a Plot and Character Development Medium in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow; 3. Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature: Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaide'sThe Activist; 4. Isidore Okpewho's Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwa's A Month and a Day: A Kinesis of Eco-activismfrom Theory to Praxis. |
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5. Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apart and Arrow of God6. Degraded Environment and Destabilized Womenin Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow; 7. The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and thePolitics of Survival in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow; 8. Women as Victims, Environmentalists andEco-activists in Vincent Egbuson's Love My Planet; 9. Can the Earth Be Belted? Rethinking Eco-literacyand Ecological Justice in Wangari Maathai's. |
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10. Nature and Social Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Tanure Ojaide's The Tale of the Harmattan: Cross-Border Studiesin Social Responsibility11. Poetic Rites, Minority Rights, and the Politics of Otherness in Tanure Ojaide's Delta Bluesand Home Songs; 12. Transcending the Discontents of Global Capitalism: Toward the Dialectics of De-commodified Environment in Daydream of Ants and Other Poemsand The Eye of the Earth; 13. Poetics of Environmental Agitation: A Stylistic Reading of Hope Eghagha's Rhythms of the Last Testament and The Governor's Lodge and Other Poems. |
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14. Niger Delta Dystopia and EnvironmentalDespoliation in Tanure Ojaide's Poetry15. Eco-survival in the Poetry of G. 'Ebinyo Ogbowei; 16. Poetics of Environmental Degradationin Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues; 17. For Common Corn: Eco-ing Bole Butake's Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, andAnd Palm-Wine Will Flow; 18. Destabilizing the Images of the African Forest As a Conceptual Space for Renegotiating African Identities during the Zimbabwe Armed LiberationStruggle in the Film Flame (1996); Notes on Editor and Contributors; Index; Back cover. |
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Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapescritically examines the representations, constructions, and imaginings of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. It offers innovative, incisive, and critical perspectives on the importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment. The book thus carries African scholarship beyond the mere analysis of themes and style to ethical and activist roles of literature having an impact on readers and the public. It is a scholarship geared towards recti. |
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African literature -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
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Environmental literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Okuyade, Ogaga.
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Print version: Okuyade, Ogaga. Eco-Critical Literature : Regreening African Landscapes. Oxford : African Heritage Press, ©2013 9780979085888 |
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9781940729015 (electronic book) |
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1940729017 (electronic book) |
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0979085888 |
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9780979085888 |
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9780979085888 |
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