ALT 38 Environmental Transformations : African Literature Today /: African Literature Today. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Louise Green, Psalms E. Chinaka, Stephanie Newell, Cajetan Iheka, Eunice Ngongkum, Katherine E. Hummel, James McCorkle, Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri, Ernest Emenyonu, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Jerome Masamaka, Cajetan Iheka, Syned Mthatiwa, Stephanie Newell, Michelle Clarke, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Sandra C. Nwokocha.
• Authors: Emenyonu, Ernest
• Editors: Emenyonu, Ernest N; Iheka, Cajetan; Newell, Stephanie
• Other Names: Green, Louise contributor.; Chinaka, Psalms E contributor.; Newell, Stephanie contributor.; Iheka, Cajetan contributor.; Ngongkum, Eunice contributor.; Hummel, Katherine E contributor.; McCorkle, James contributor.; Wahu-Muchiri, Ng'ang'a contributor.; Masamaka, Jerome contributor.; Mthatiwa, Syned contributor.; Clarke, Michelle contributor.; Egya, Sule Emmanuel contributor.; Nwokocha, Sandra C contributor.
• Contents: Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Cajetan Iheka; Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Stephanie Newell; Literary Totemism & its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho's Literary Bees - Jerome Masamaka; Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa's David Mogo Godhunter & "The End of the World as We Know It" - Louise Green; Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a "Modernising" City in Nigerian Poetry - Sule Emmanuel Egya; Poetic Style & Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo's Poems - Syned Mthatiwa; Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow - Sandra C. Nwokocha; Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & the Politics of Form - Katherine E. Hummel; "It is the Writer's Place to Stand with the Oppressed": Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong's Blot on the Landscape & The Tears of the Earth - Eunice Ngongkum; Black Atlantic Futurism & Toxic Discourses in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix: An Ecocritical Reading - Michelle Clarke; Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler & Nnedi Okorafor - James McCorkle; Interview with Kenyan Novelist, Yvonne Owuor - Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri; LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Poems & Short Stories; TRIBUTE Pa Gabriel Okara (1918 - 2019) - An African Literary Colossus on Ancestral Journey - Psalms E. Chinaka; REVIEWS edited by Obi Nwakanma
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Martlesham : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (205 pages)
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature; NATURE / Essays; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Environmentalist thought & ideology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787447905; 1787447901
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