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200 00$aEco-critical literature $eregreening African landscapes /$fedited by Ogaga Okuyade
210  1$aNew York :$cAfrican Heritage Press,$d2013.
215   $a1 online resource (374 p.)
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327   $a""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction: African Cultural Art Forms, Eco-activism, and (Eco)-logical Consciousness ""; ""1. Representations of the Effects of Colonial Land Policies in two Zimbabwean Novels ""; ""2. Landscaping as a Plot and Character Development Medium in Ngugi wa Thionga???oa???s Wizard of the Crow ""; ""3. Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature: Zakes Mdaa???s Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaidea???s The Activist""
327   $a""4. Isidore Okpewhoa???s Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwaa???s A Month and a Day: A Kinesis of Eco-activism from Theory to Praxis""""5. Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebea???s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God""; ""6. Degraded Environment and Destabilized Women in Kaine Agarya???s Yellow-Yellow""; ""7. The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and the Politics of Survival in Kaine Agarya???s Yellow-Yellow""; ""8. Women as Victims, Environmentalists and Eco-activists in Vincent Egbusona???s Love My Planet""
327   $a""9. Can the Earth Be Belted? Rethinking Eco-literacy and Ecological Justice in Wangari Maathaia???s""""10. Nature and Social Responsibility in Rachel Carsona???s Silent Spring and Tanure Ojaidea???s The Tale of the Harmattan: Cross-Border Studies in Social Responsibility""; ""11. Poetic Rites, Minority Rights, and the Politics of Otherness in Tanure Ojaidea???s Delta Blues and Home Songs""; ""12. Transcending the Discontents of Global Capitalism: Toward the Dialectics of De-commodified Environment in Daydream of Ants and Other Poems and The Eye of the Earth""
327   $a""13. Poetics of Environmental Agitation: A Stylistic Reading of Hope Eghaghaa???s Rhythms of the Last Testament and The Governora???s Lodge and Other Poems """"14. Niger Delta Dystopia and Environmental Despoliation in Tanure Ojaidea???s Poetry""; ""15. Eco-survival in the Poetry of G. a???Ebinyo Ogbowei""; ""16. Poetics of Environmental Degradation in Tanure Ojaidea???s Delta Blues""; ""17. For Common Corn: Eco-ing Bole Butakea???s Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, and And Palm-Wine Will Flow""
327   $a""18. Destabilizing the Images of the African Forest As a Conceptual Space for Renegotiating African Identities during the Zimbabwe Armed Liberation Struggle in the Film Flame (1996)""""Notes on Editor and Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back cover ""
330   $aEco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapescritically examines the representations, constructions, and imaginings of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. It offers innovative, incisive, and critical perspectives on the importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment. The book thus carries African scholarship beyond the mere analysis of themes and style to ethical and activist roles of literature having an impact on readers and the public. It is a scholarship geared towards recti
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