Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0821419781 ISBN 13: 9780821419786

Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis. Contributors analyze writings by colonial administrators and literary authors, as well as by such prominent African activists and writers as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mia Couto, Nadine Gordimer, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Ben Okri. These postcolonial ecocritical readings focus on dialogue not only among disciplines but also among different visions of African environments. In the process, Environment at the Margins posits the possibility of an ecocriticism that will challenge and move beyond marginalizing, limiting visions of an imaginary Africa. 

Contributors:
Jane Carruthers
Mara Goldman
Amanda Hammar
Jonathan Highfield
David McDermott Hughes
Roderick P. Neumann
Rob Nixon
Anthony Vital
Laura Wright

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L'autore:

Byron Caminero-Santangelo is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality.

Garth Myers is a professor of geography and African & African-American studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice, and coeditor with Martin J. Murray of Cities in Contemporary Africa.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ohio Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0821419781
• ISBN 13: 9780821419786
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 295
• Redattore: Caminero-Santangelo Byron, Myers Garth