ALT 38 Environmental Transformations - African Literature Today (Hardcover)

Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change. This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of global environmental transformations. Does environmentalist literature offer new possibilities for critical thinking about the future? What constitutes environmentalist fiction and poetry? What kind of texts, themes and topics does climate writing include? Does any text in which the environment features become available to environmentalist criticism? In their engagement with the diverse genres, themes and frameworks through which contemporary African writers address topics including urbanisation, cross-species communication, nature and climate change, contributors to this special issue help to define African environmental writing. They look at the literary strategies adopted by creative writers to convey the impact of environmental transformationin narratives that are historically informed by a century of colonialism, nationalist political activism, urbanisation and postcolonial migration. How does environmental literature intervene in these histories? Can creative writers, with their powerfully post-human and cross-species imaginations, carry out the ethical work demanded by contemporary climate science? From Tanure Ojaide's and Helon Habila's attention to environmental decimation in the Niger Delta through to Nnedi Okorafor's and Kofi Anyidoho's imaginative cross-species encounters, the special issue asks how literature mediates the specificities of climate change in an era of global capitalism and technological transformation, and what the limits of creative writing and literary criticism are as tools for discussing environmental issues. This volume also includes a Literary Supplement. Guest Editors: Cajetan Iheka (Associate Professor of English, Yale University) and Stephanie Newell (Professor of English, Yale University) Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint) Reviews Editor:Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida)

General

Imprint:	James Currey
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	African Literature Today
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Contributors:	Louise Green
Series editors:	Ernest N. Emenyonu (Author)
Contributors:	Jerome Masamaka
Guest editors:	Cajetan Iheka (Author)
Contributors:	Syned Mthatiwa
Guest editors:	Stephanie Newell (Royalty Account)
Contributors:	Michelle Clarke • Sule Emmanuel Egya • Sandra C. Nwokocha • Psalms E. Chinaka
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	205
ISBN-13:	978-1-84701-228-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-84701-228-0
Barcode:	9781847012289

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