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Alt 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today

Alt 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today

Green, Louise
Emenyonu, Ernest N.
Masamaka, Jerome

Paperback

Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover), Book 38

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesNature Writing

ISBN10: 1847012604
ISBN13: 9781847012609
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Nov 20 2020
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change.

This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of global environmental transformations. Does environmentalist literature offer new possibilities for critical thinking about the future? What constitutes environmentalist fiction and poetry? What kind of texts, themes and topics does climate writing include? Does any text in which the environment features become available to environmentalist criticism? In their engagement with the diverse genres, themes and frameworks through which contemporary African writers address topics including urbanisation, cross-species communication, nature and climate change, contributors to this special issue help to define African environmental writing. They look at the literary strategies adopted by creative writers to convey the impact of environmental transformationin narratives that are historically informed by a century of colonialism, nationalist political activism, urbanisation and postcolonial migration. How does environmental literature intervene in these histories? Can creative writers, with their powerfully post-human and cross-species imaginations, carry out the ethical work demanded by contemporary climate science? From Tanure Ojaide's and Helon Habila's attention to environmental decimation in the Niger Delta through to Nnedi Okorafor's and Kofi Anyidoho's imaginative cross-species encounters, the special issue asks how literature mediates the specificities of climate change in an era of global capitalism and technological transformation, and what the limits of creative writing and literary criticism are as tools for discussing environmental issues.

Guest Editors: Cajetan Iheka (Associate Professor of English, Yale University) and Stephanie Newell (Professor of English, Yale University)

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