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UNINA9911135157303321 |
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Crowley D |
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Africa's Narrative Geographies : Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / / by D. Crowley |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 192 p.) |
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Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188 |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature |
African literature |
Fiction |
Literature - History and criticism |
Literature - Philosophy |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
World Literature |
African Literature |
Fiction Literature |
Literary History |
Literary Theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction. Charting a path for geocriticism -- My Black land : Senghor's construction of Africa -- Place and scale in Ngugi's universal garden -- Imagining the global village : Bessie Head's narratives of migration and boundaries -- Cosmopolitan Somalia : place and identity in Farah's Maps and Links -- Half slum, half paradise : Abani's global cities -- Conclusion. The landscape of geocritical inquiry : finding common ground for geocriticism and ecocriticism. |
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Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods |
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for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity. |
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UNINA9911131594703321 |
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Zovanyi Gabor <1943-> |
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The no-growth imperative : creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth / / Gabor Zovanyi |
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London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-18888-6 |
0-203-08401-2 |
1-283-87154-8 |
1-136-18889-4 |
9780203084014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Sustainable development - United States |
Economic development - Environmental aspects - United States |
Communities - United States |
Land use - United States - Planning |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface -- Requiem for the growth imperative -- The American community as a growth machine -- Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- The no-growth path to sustainability -- Envisioning no-growth communities -- Epilogue: ten difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography. |
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More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is |
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inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative. Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's |
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