LEADER 03446oam 2200577Mn 450 001 9910476759203321 005 20240513164852.0 010 $a1-00-314827-1 010 $a1-003-14827-1 010 $a1-000-37625-7 010 $a1-000-37627-3 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148272 035 $a(CKB)4100000011758533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6476627 035 $a(OCoLC)1237525497 035 $a(ScCtBLL)abe956f2-8060-4ae1-ba0f-3a1a7969b286 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1237525497 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003148272 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63991 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011758533 100 $a20210214d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN IMAGINATION $ewe, too, are humans 205 $a1st ed. 210 $a[S.l.] $cROUTLEDGE$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge contemporary Africa series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-367-70854-X 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good -- Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice -- Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses -- Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition -- Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity -- Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking -- Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good 330 $aJustice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses variousquests forjustice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 410 0$aRoutledge contemporary Africa series. 606 $aHuman rights$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 610 $aLiterature: history and criticism 610 $aHuman rights, civil rights 615 0$aHuman rights 676 $a323.096 676 $a323.096 700 $aEze$b Chielozona$0941898 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476759203321 996 $aJustice and human rights in the African imagination$92125231 997 $aUNINA