0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books

Not currently available

ALT 38 Environmental Transformations - African Literature Today (Paperback) Loot Price: R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations - African Literature Today (Paperback): Louise Green

ALT 38 Environmental Transformations - African Literature Today (Paperback)

Louise Green; Series edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu; Contributions by Jerome Masamaka; Edited by (ghost editors) Cajetan Iheka; Contributions by Syned Mthatiwa; Edited by (ghost editors) Stephanie Newell; Contributions by Michelle Clarke, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Sandra C. Nwokocha, Psalms E. Chinaka

Series: African Literature Today

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R524 Discovery Miles 5 240

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY 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. 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 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 978-1-84701-260-9
Categories: Books
Promotions
LSN: 1-84701-260-4
Barcode: 9781847012609

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Cooking Lekka - Comforting Recipes For…
Thameenah Daniels Paperback R290 Discovery Miles 2 900
The Lie Of 1652 - A Decolonised History…
Patric Tariq Mellet Paperback  (7)
R365 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700
Snyman's Criminal Law
Kallie Snyman, Shannon Vaughn Hoctor Paperback R1,463 R1,199 Discovery Miles 11 990
Kirstenbosch - A Visitor's Guide
Colin Paterson-Jones, John Winter Paperback R160 R125 Discovery Miles 1 250
Breaking Bread - A Memoir
Jonathan Jansen Paperback R330 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200
Herontdek Jou Selfvertroue - Sewe Stappe…
Rolene Strauss Paperback  (1)
R330 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840
Bait - To Catch A Killer
Janine Lazarus Paperback R320 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750
Robert - A Queer And Crooked Memoir For…
Robert Hamblin Paperback  (1)
R335 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880
The Year Of Facing Fire - A Memoir
Helena Kriel Paperback R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710
Hiking Beyond Cape Town - 40 Inspiring…
Nina du Plessis, Willie Olivier Paperback R340 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660
Surfacing - On Being Black And Feminist…
Desiree Lewis, Gabeba Baderoon Paperback R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140
Heart Of A Strong Woman - From Daveyton…
Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema, Fred Khumalo Paperback R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010

See more

Partners