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  1. Naturalizing Africa
    ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
    Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
    Published: 2018; © 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    91.031.52
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
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    JE2 617
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107199170; 9781316648643
    Subjects: Postkolonialismus <Motiv>; Literatur; Ecocriticism; Motiv
    Scope: XII, 211 Seiten
  2. Naturalizing Africa
    ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
    Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    "The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in Nigeria, ecologies of war in Somalia, and animal abuses. Analyzing narratives by important African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Ben Okri, Iheka challenges the tendency to focus primarily on humans in the conceptualization of environmental problems, and instead focuses on how African literature demonstrates the interconnection and 'proximity' of human and nonhuman beings. Through this, Iheka ultimately proposes a revision of the idea of agency based on human intentionality in African literary studies and postcolonialism: that texts yoke the exploitation of Africans to the despoliation of the environment, and they recommend responsibility toward human and nonhuman beings as crucial for ecological sustainability and addressing climate change."...Publisher's summary

     
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  3. Naturalizing Africa
    ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
    Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "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... more

     

    "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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781316648643
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Ecocriticism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Human-animal relationships; Human-plant relationships; Human beings; Nature; Human ecology; Human ecology in literature; Violence; War
    Scope: xii, 211 Seiten
  4. Naturalizing Africa
    ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
    Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    "The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in... more

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in Nigeria, ecologies of war in Somalia, and animal abuses. Analyzing narratives by important African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Ben Okri, Iheka challenges the tendency to focus primarily on humans in the conceptualization of environmental problems, and instead focuses on how African literature demonstrates the interconnection and 'proximity' of human and nonhuman beings. Through this, Iheka ultimately proposes a revision of the idea of agency based on human intentionality in African literary studies and postcolonialism: that texts yoke the exploitation of Africans to the despoliation of the environment, and they recommend responsibility toward human and nonhuman beings as crucial for ecological sustainability and addressing climate change."...Publisher's summary

     
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  5. Naturalizing Africa
    ecological violence, agency, and postcolonial resistance in African literature
    Author: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "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... more

    Location:
    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    Signature:
    NY 008.051
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    "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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781316648643; 9781107199170
    RVK Categories: HP 1240
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Ecocriticism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Human-animal relationships; Human-plant relationships; Human beings; Nature; Human ecology; Human ecology in literature; Violence; War; Ecocriticism; Ecocriticism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Human-animal relationships; Human-plant relationships; Human beings; Nature; Human ecology; Human ecology in literature
    Scope: xii, 211 Seiten
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 167-206

    Introduction : naturalizing Africa -- African literature and the aesthetics of proximity -- Beyond human agency : Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war -- Rethinking postcolonial resistance : the Niger Delta example -- Resistance from the ground : agriculture, gender, and manual labor -- Epilogue : rehabilitating the human.