Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Itinerariesof African Ecocriticism and Environmental Transformations in African Literature
- Literary Totemism and its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho’s Literary Bees
- Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s David Mogo, Godhunter and ‘the end of the world as we know it’
- Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry
- Poetic Style and Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo’s Poems
- Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow
- Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Politics of Form
- ‘It is the Writer’s Place to Stand with the Oppressed’: Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong’s Blot on the Landscape and The Tears of the Earth
- Black Atlantic Futurism, Toxic Discourses and Decolonizing the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
- Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor
- INTERVIEW
- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
- TRIBUTE
- REVIEWS
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Itinerariesof African Ecocriticism and Environmental Transformations in African Literature
- Literary Totemism and its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho’s Literary Bees
- Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s David Mogo, Godhunter and ‘the end of the world as we know it’
- Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry
- Poetic Style and Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo’s Poems
- Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow
- Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Politics of Form
- ‘It is the Writer’s Place to Stand with the Oppressed’: Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong’s Blot on the Landscape and The Tears of the Earth
- Black Atlantic Futurism, Toxic Discourses and Decolonizing the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
- Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor
- INTERVIEW
- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
- TRIBUTE
- REVIEWS
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- ALT 38 Environmental TransformationsAfrican Literature Today, pp. viii - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020