Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
Disciplina | 810 |
Altri autori (Persone) | OkuyadeOgaga |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-940729-01-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""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 Thiong�o�s Wizard of the Crow ""; ""3. Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature: Zakes Mda�s Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaide�s The Activist""
""4. Isidore Okpewho�s Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwa�s A Month and a Day: A Kinesis of Eco-activism from Theory to Praxis""""5. Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebe�s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God""; ""6. Degraded Environment and Destabilized Women in Kaine Agary�s Yellow-Yellow""; ""7. The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and the Politics of Survival in Kaine Agary�s Yellow-Yellow""; ""8. Women as Victims, Environmentalists and Eco-activists in Vincent Egbuson�s Love My Planet"" ""9. Can the Earth Be Belted? Rethinking Eco-literacy and Ecological Justice in Wangari Maathai�s""""10. Nature and Social Responsibility in Rachel Carson�s Silent Spring and Tanure Ojaide�s The Tale of the Harmattan: Cross-Border Studies in Social Responsibility""; ""11. Poetic Rites, Minority Rights, and the Politics of Otherness in Tanure Ojaide�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"" ""13. Poetics of Environmental Agitation: A Stylistic Reading of Hope Eghagha�s Rhythms of the Last Testament and The Governor�s Lodge and Other Poems """"14. Niger Delta Dystopia and Environmental Despoliation in Tanure Ojaide�s Poetry""; ""15. Eco-survival in the Poetry of G. �Ebinyo Ogbowei""; ""16. Poetics of Environmental Degradation in Tanure Ojaide�s Delta Blues""; ""17. For Common Corn: Eco-ing Bole Butake�s Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, and And Palm-Wine Will Flow"" ""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 "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787506903321 |
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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
Disciplina | 810 |
Altri autori (Persone) | OkuyadeOgaga |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-940729-01-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""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 Thiong�o�s Wizard of the Crow ""; ""3. Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature: Zakes Mda�s Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaide�s The Activist""
""4. Isidore Okpewho�s Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwa�s A Month and a Day: A Kinesis of Eco-activism from Theory to Praxis""""5. Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebe�s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God""; ""6. Degraded Environment and Destabilized Women in Kaine Agary�s Yellow-Yellow""; ""7. The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and the Politics of Survival in Kaine Agary�s Yellow-Yellow""; ""8. Women as Victims, Environmentalists and Eco-activists in Vincent Egbuson�s Love My Planet"" ""9. Can the Earth Be Belted? Rethinking Eco-literacy and Ecological Justice in Wangari Maathai�s""""10. Nature and Social Responsibility in Rachel Carson�s Silent Spring and Tanure Ojaide�s The Tale of the Harmattan: Cross-Border Studies in Social Responsibility""; ""11. Poetic Rites, Minority Rights, and the Politics of Otherness in Tanure Ojaide�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"" ""13. Poetics of Environmental Agitation: A Stylistic Reading of Hope Eghagha�s Rhythms of the Last Testament and The Governor�s Lodge and Other Poems """"14. Niger Delta Dystopia and Environmental Despoliation in Tanure Ojaide�s Poetry""; ""15. Eco-survival in the Poetry of G. �Ebinyo Ogbowei""; ""16. Poetics of Environmental Degradation in Tanure Ojaide�s Delta Blues""; ""17. For Common Corn: Eco-ing Bole Butake�s Concerns in Lake God, The Survivors, and And Palm-Wine Will Flow"" ""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 "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808412803321 |
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Issues in African literature [[electronic resource] /] / Charles E. Nnolim |
Autore | Nnolim Charles E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.869 |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-59338-6
9786613905833 978-8422-82-9 978-8422-80-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's
11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462080603321 |
Nnolim Charles E
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Issues in African literature [[electronic resource] /] / Charles E. Nnolim |
Autore | Nnolim Charles E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.869 |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-283-59338-6
9786613905833 978-8422-82-9 978-8422-80-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's
11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785767703321 |
Nnolim Charles E
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Issues in African literature / / Charles E. Nnolim |
Autore | Nnolim Charles E |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.869 |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-283-59338-6
9786613905833 978-8422-82-9 978-8422-80-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's
11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820464603321 |
Nnolim Charles E
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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and affiliative literature : relational worlds / / Joseph Hankinson |
Autore | Hankinson Joseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.896 |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
African literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
9783031187766
9783031187759 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910634032003321 |
Hankinson Joseph
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022] | ||
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Lignes de fronts : le roman de guerre dans la littérature africaine / / Désiré Nyela et Paul Bleton ; préface de Jean-Godefroy Bidima |
Autore | Nyela Désiré |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Montréal, Qué.], : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 896 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BletonPaul |
Collana | Espace littéraire |
Soggetto topico |
Littérature africaine - Histoire et critique
Récits de guerre - Histoire et critique Guerre dans la littérature African literature - History and criticism War stories - History and criticism War in literature |
ISBN |
979-1-03-650199-9
2-7606-2546-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : Une littérature et un genre problématiques -- L'inspiration épique et ses destins -- L'héritage colonial -- Et du côté français? -- La guerre comme chaos civil -- Conclusion : Un statut culturel incertain. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480015903321 |
Nyela Désiré
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[Montréal, Qué.], : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2009 | ||
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Literature of Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Douglas Killam |
Autore | Killam G. D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.896 |
Collana | Literature as windows to world cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-40898-4
9786612408984 0-313-05821-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Africa and Europe; PART I: A SELECTED HISTORY OF WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART II: A SELECTED HISTORY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART III: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART IV: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POLITICS; Biographies; Further Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455249803321 |
Killam G. D
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Literature of Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Douglas Killam |
Autore | Killam G. D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.896 |
Collana | Literature as windows to world cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-282-40898-4
9786612408984 0-313-05821-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Africa and Europe; PART I: A SELECTED HISTORY OF WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART II: A SELECTED HISTORY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART III: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART IV: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POLITICS; Biographies; Further Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778426903321 |
Killam G. D
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Literature of Africa / / Douglas Killam |
Autore | Killam G. D |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.896 |
Collana | Literature as windows to world cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
979-84-00-68018-2
1-282-40898-4 9786612408984 0-313-05821-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Africa and Europe; PART I: A SELECTED HISTORY OF WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART II: A SELECTED HISTORY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART III: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICAN LITERATURE; PART IV: A SELECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POLITICS; Biographies; Further Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820317603321 |
Killam G. D
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