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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)
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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)
The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites
us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it
careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green
engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as
the "Anthropocene," "the great acceleration," and "rewilding" in
order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of
climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa. Utilizing
a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt school, Green
rearranges narrative fragments from the "global nature industry,"
which subjugates all aspects of nature to the logic of capitalist
production, in order to disrupt preconceived notions and habitual
ways of thinking about how we inhabit the Anthropocene. Examining
climate change through the details of everyday life, particularly
the history of conspicuous consumption and the exploitation of
Africa, she surfaces the myths and fantasies that have brought the
world to its current ecological crisis and that continue to shape
the narratives through which it is understood. Beginning with
African rainforest exhibits in New York and Cornwall, Green
discusses how these representations of the climate catastrophe fail
to acknowledge the unequal pace at which humans consume and
continue to replicate imperial narratives about Africa. Examining
this history and climate change through the lens of South Africa's
entry into capitalist modernity, Green argues that the Anthropocene
redirects attention away from the real problem, which is not
human's relation with nature, but people's relations with each
other. A sophisticated, carefully argued call to rethink how we
approach relationships between and among humans and the world in
which we live, Fragments from the History of Loss is a challenge to
both the current era and the scholarly conversation about the
Anthropocene.
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa,
bringing research on South African photography into conversation
with work from several other places on the continent, including
Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and
Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and
its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary
photography and practices of self-representation; and with the
place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as
contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through
detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic
archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been
used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique
such forms of power. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Social Dynamics.
In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry
fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them
from improving their health and fitness. By telling her own story
of how she stopped dieting, got off the couch, and unleashed her
inner athlete as well as showcasing similar stories from other
women Green inspires other plus-size women to do the same. Green
also provides concrete advice, based on the latest research, about
how to get started, how to establish a support team, how to choose
an activity, what kind of clothing and gear work best for the
plus-size athlete, how to set goals, and how to improve one's
relationship with food. And she stresses the importance of paying
it forward for it is only by seeing plus-size women in leadership
roles that other plus-size women will be motivated to stop trying
to lose weight and get fit instead.
The Anthropocene’s urgent message about imminent disaster invites
us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it
careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green
engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as
the “Anthropocene,” “the great acceleration,” and
“rewilding” in order to explore what the philosophy of nature
in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial
Africa. Utilizing a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt
school, Green rearranges narrative fragments from the “global
nature industry,” which subjugates all aspects of nature to the
logic of capitalist production, in order to disrupt preconceived
notions and habitual ways of thinking about how we inhabit the
Anthropocene. Examining climate change through the details of
everyday life, particularly the history of conspicuous consumption
and the exploitation of Africa, she surfaces the myths and
fantasies that have brought the world to its current ecological
crisis and that continue to shape the narratives through which it
is understood. Beginning with African rainforest exhibits in New
York and Cornwall, Green discusses how these representations of the
climate catastrophe fail to acknowledge the unequal pace at which
humans consume and continue to replicate imperial narratives about
Africa. Examining this history and climate change through the lens
of South Africa’s entry into capitalist modernity, Green argues
that the Anthropocene redirects attention away from the real
problem, which is not human’s relation with nature, but
people’s relations with each other. A sophisticated, carefully
argued call to rethink how we approach relationships between and
among humans and the world in which we live, Fragments from the
History of Loss is a challenge to both the current era and the
scholarly conversation about the Anthropocene.
It is about Poetry written from the heart. It is life's experiences
written in the form of poetry. It is words written from the mind
into the heart. I have written Poetry to comfort, to inspire and if
I can touch one person with my Poetry publishing my Poetry is worth
all the work put forth. A God given talent only He can give. If I
can write anyone can if they feel they have a talent given from
above. I say go for it.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Toleration Act and proviso notwithstanding, no rival church was
desired at this time in Connecticut. No rival creed was recognized.
True, there were a few handfuls of dissenters scattered through the
colony, but Congregationalism, with a strong tincture of
Presbyterianism, was almost the unanimous choice of the people. It
was largely outside pressure that had forced the passage of the
Toleration Act, even if it accounts for itself as a loyal following
of the English precedent of 1689.
This book is of life experiences written in the form of poetry. It
is from the heart, the feelings of what I am feeling at the time.
It is a God-given talent that only He could give. I have been
writing poetry since I was 10 years old and I am now 64 years old.
I was the fifth of six kids. I was born September 23, 1945 in a
small town in Colorado two months after World War II ended, in Las
Animas, Colorado, a town 83 miles southeast of Pueblo, Colorado,
where everyone knew one another and probably all related. My poetry
became a part of me and I feel it's worth reading.
""They say that geese mate for life. I have to wonder what's going
through their minds when they're flying. Are they thinking, 'My
mate isn't flying in front of me long enough and how selfish is he
and why can't he stay in formation for one minute?' I doubt it.
They seem to stick together no matter what.""
In a charming twist on the traditional correspondences form of a
novel, Geese Mate for Life is the hilarious e-mail diary between
childhood chums, Libby and Sugar, as they struggle with the joys
and frustrations of motherhood, marriage, and careers over the
course of one roller-coaster year.
The two thirty-something women candidly kibitz about kids,
housework, cougars, and corporate restructuring via daily email.
From sick kids and apathetic husbands to horrendous holidays and
PMS commiseration, the girls reveal their saucy wit and deep
friendship. But when Libby and Sugar encounter life-altering events
that leave them more than a little off-balance, the two wonder if
life's answers aren't closer than they think.
Sometimes the truth is hilarious, embarrassing, or poignant,
but one thing is for sure: with Libby and Sugar, it's always
entertaining
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Toleration Act and proviso notwithstanding, no rival church was
desired at this time in Connecticut. No rival creed was recognized.
True, there were a few handfuls of dissenters scattered through the
colony, but Congregationalism, with a strong tincture of
Presbyterianism, was almost the unanimous choice of the people. It
was largely outside pressure that had forced the passage of the
Toleration Act, even if it accounts for itself as a loyal following
of the English precedent of 1689.
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa,
bringing research on South African photography into conversation
with work from several other places on the continent, including
Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and
Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and
its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary
photography and practices of self-representation; and with the
place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as
contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through
detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic
archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been
used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique
such forms of power. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Social Dynamics.
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