Fresh Ecocritical Voices in African Literatures and Cultures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781957296647)

This edited volume brings together fresh voices, both emerging and established, on the ecocritical landscape within African literatures and cultures. In the era of the Anthropocene, the editors and contributors demonstrate how African cultural products address climate and ecological concerns, including activism, animal and plant conservation, climate change, environmental degradation, food security, disasters, ecosystems, and social injustice. The volume offers critical and comparative analyses that transcend the boundaries of languages, places, and textual genres. Significantly, it foregrounds the intersectionality of ecological issues with social, economic, and political dimensions. By doing so, it highlights how environmental challenges are intricately linked to questions of identity, space, justice, and indigenous knowledge systems. While espousing classical textual analysis and beginning to gesture towards empirical experimentation, the volume exemplifies ongoing decolonial and postcolonial approaches in environmental humanities from the African continent and the Global South/Majority.

Author: Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu
ISBN-10: 195729664X
ISBN-13: 9781957296647
Publisher: Spears Books
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2025
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d