Natures of Africa (ePub)
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One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media.
Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist 'powerhouses' of Nigeria and South Africa. The chapters engage one another conceptually and epistemologically without an enforced consensus of approach. In their conversation with dominant ideas about nature and animals, they reveal unexpected insights into forms of cultural expression of local communities in Africa. The analyses explore different apprehensions of the connections between humans, animals and the environment, and suggest alternative ways of addressing the challenges facing the continent. These include the problems of global warming, desertification, floods, animal extinctions and environmental destruction attendant upon fossil fuel extraction. There are few books that show how nature in Africa is represented, celebrated, mourned or commoditised. Natures of Africa weaves together studies of narratives - from folklore, travel writing, novels and popular songs - with the insights of poetry and contemporary reflections of Africa on the worldwide web. The chapters test disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, highlighting the ways in which the environmental concerns of African communities cannot be disentangled from social, cultural and political questions. This volume draws on and will appeal to scholars and teachers of oral tradition and indigenous cultures, literature, religion, sociology and anthropology, environmental and animal studies, as well as media and digital cultures in an African context.
F. Fiona Moolla is a Senior Lecturer and the Graduate Coordinator in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Byron Caminero-Santangelo is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas.
Sule Emmanuel Egya is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.
Jonathan Bishop Highfield is Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design.
Jacob Mapara is a lecturer and inaugural Chair of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Living Heritage, at Chinhoyi University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning.
Syned Mthatiwa is a literary scholar and fiction writer who teaches Literature at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
Mickias Musiyiwa holds a PhD in popular songs obtained from Stellenbosch University in 2013 as well as an MA in African Languages and Literature from the University of Zimbabwe.
Ogaga Okuyade teaches popular/folk culture, African literature and culture, African American and African diasporic studies and theEnglish novel in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Nigeria.
Mathilda Slabbert lectures in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stellenbosch.
Anthony Vital is a professor of English at Transylvania University, a liberal arts college in Kentucky.
Reinier J.M. Vriend works as a lecturer at the Media and Culture department of the University of Amsterdam
James Maina Wachira holds a Bachelor of Education (Arts) and Master of Philosophy of Literature from Moi University
Wendy Woodward teaches southern African Literature, Animal Studies and Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Chengyi Coral Wu is a
- Autoren: Mathilda Slabbert , Anthony Vital , Reinier J. M. Vriend , James Maina Wachira , Wendy Woodward , Chengyi Coral Wu , F. Fiona Moolla , Byron Caminero-Santangelo , Sule Emmanuel Egya , Jonathan Bishop Highfield , Jacob Mapara , Syned Mthatiwa , Mickias Musiyiwa , Ogaga Okuyade
- 2016, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: F. Fiona Moolla
- Verlag: Wits University Press
- ISBN-10: 1868149145
- ISBN-13: 9781868149148
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2016
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