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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade
| 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| 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-9910462989903321 |
| New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade
| 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 |
| New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade
| 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 |
| New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others]
| Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.896 |
| Collana | Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society |
| Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 94-012-1109-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Womanhood, Sexuality, and WorkThe Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa,Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo); Outgoing and Incoming Africans Migration and Reverse Migrationin Contemporary African Narratives; Development Imperatives and Transnationalismin Third-Generation Nigerian Fiction; Creativity and the Ugandan WomanThe Dialectic of Struggle and Equality in Mary Karooro Okurut's The Invisible Weevil and Violet Barungi's Cassandra; Satire, Children, and Traumatic ViolenceThe Case of Ahmadou Kourouma and Uwen Akpan
Affect in Representations of Children''s Experiences of Mass Violence Uwem Akpan''s Say You're One of Them and Goretti Kyomuhendo''s Secrets no MoreMirror Writing, Social Realism, and theInterrogation of the Postcolonial Nation Alobwed''Epie''s The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked; Transnationalism and the Agenda of African Literature in a Digital Age; Postcolonial Encounters Re-Envisioned Kojo Laing''s Woman of the Aeroplanes as Trickster Narrative; Countries of the Mind Space-Time Chronotopes in Adichie''s Purple Hibiscus Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s ''''The Headstrong Historian'''' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartNegotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Testimonio of African National and Ethnic Identity; Strangers in/to the World The Unhomely in Chris Abani''s GraceLand; Maik Nwosu''s Invisible Chapter sInvestigating Psychological Fragmentation in Nigerian Literature; The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe''s On Black Sisters'' Street Fictional Narrative and the Reflective Self in Helon Habila''s Waiting for an AngelInverting Otherness in Kaine Agary''s Yellow-Yellow; Love''s Metamorphosis in Third-Generation African Women's Writing The Example of Lola Shoneyin''s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi''s Wives; Gender and (Homo) Sexualityin Third-Generation African Writing A Reading of Unoma Azuah''s Sky-High Flames and Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows; Motif/ves of Justice in Writings by Third-Generation Nigerian Women; Notes on Contributors; Notes for Contributors to Matatu |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458745403321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others]
| Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.896 |
| Collana | Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society |
| Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 94-012-1109-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Womanhood, Sexuality, and WorkThe Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa,Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo); Outgoing and Incoming Africans Migration and Reverse Migrationin Contemporary African Narratives; Development Imperatives and Transnationalismin Third-Generation Nigerian Fiction; Creativity and the Ugandan WomanThe Dialectic of Struggle and Equality in Mary Karooro Okurut's The Invisible Weevil and Violet Barungi's Cassandra; Satire, Children, and Traumatic ViolenceThe Case of Ahmadou Kourouma and Uwen Akpan
Affect in Representations of Children''s Experiences of Mass Violence Uwem Akpan''s Say You're One of Them and Goretti Kyomuhendo''s Secrets no MoreMirror Writing, Social Realism, and theInterrogation of the Postcolonial Nation Alobwed''Epie''s The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked; Transnationalism and the Agenda of African Literature in a Digital Age; Postcolonial Encounters Re-Envisioned Kojo Laing''s Woman of the Aeroplanes as Trickster Narrative; Countries of the Mind Space-Time Chronotopes in Adichie''s Purple Hibiscus Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s ''''The Headstrong Historian'''' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartNegotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Testimonio of African National and Ethnic Identity; Strangers in/to the World The Unhomely in Chris Abani''s GraceLand; Maik Nwosu''s Invisible Chapter sInvestigating Psychological Fragmentation in Nigerian Literature; The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe''s On Black Sisters'' Street Fictional Narrative and the Reflective Self in Helon Habila''s Waiting for an AngelInverting Otherness in Kaine Agary''s Yellow-Yellow; Love''s Metamorphosis in Third-Generation African Women's Writing The Example of Lola Shoneyin''s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi''s Wives; Gender and (Homo) Sexualityin Third-Generation African Writing A Reading of Unoma Azuah''s Sky-High Flames and Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows; Motif/ves of Justice in Writings by Third-Generation Nigerian Women; Notes on Contributors; Notes for Contributors to Matatu |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791155703321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others]
| Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction / / edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.896 |
| Collana | Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society |
| Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 94-012-1109-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Womanhood, Sexuality, and WorkThe Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa,Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo); Outgoing and Incoming Africans Migration and Reverse Migrationin Contemporary African Narratives; Development Imperatives and Transnationalismin Third-Generation Nigerian Fiction; Creativity and the Ugandan WomanThe Dialectic of Struggle and Equality in Mary Karooro Okurut's The Invisible Weevil and Violet Barungi's Cassandra; Satire, Children, and Traumatic ViolenceThe Case of Ahmadou Kourouma and Uwen Akpan
Affect in Representations of Children''s Experiences of Mass Violence Uwem Akpan''s Say You're One of Them and Goretti Kyomuhendo''s Secrets no MoreMirror Writing, Social Realism, and theInterrogation of the Postcolonial Nation Alobwed''Epie''s The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked; Transnationalism and the Agenda of African Literature in a Digital Age; Postcolonial Encounters Re-Envisioned Kojo Laing''s Woman of the Aeroplanes as Trickster Narrative; Countries of the Mind Space-Time Chronotopes in Adichie''s Purple Hibiscus Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s ''''The Headstrong Historian'''' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartNegotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Testimonio of African National and Ethnic Identity; Strangers in/to the World The Unhomely in Chris Abani''s GraceLand; Maik Nwosu''s Invisible Chapter sInvestigating Psychological Fragmentation in Nigerian Literature; The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe''s On Black Sisters'' Street Fictional Narrative and the Reflective Self in Helon Habila''s Waiting for an AngelInverting Otherness in Kaine Agary''s Yellow-Yellow; Love''s Metamorphosis in Third-Generation African Women's Writing The Example of Lola Shoneyin''s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi''s Wives; Gender and (Homo) Sexualityin Third-Generation African Writing A Reading of Unoma Azuah''s Sky-High Flames and Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows; Motif/ves of Justice in Writings by Third-Generation Nigerian Women; Notes on Contributors; Notes for Contributors to Matatu |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814903903321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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