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This book addresses the pressing issues of environmentalism and its representations in African literature. It emphasizes how African writers articulate the consequences of ecological degradation while engaging with decolonial thought that underscores the epistemic importance of the enslaved and colonized quest for humanity and challenges Western narratives' exclusivity.
The chapters in this volume underscore the necessity to preserve the ecosystem of the oppressed, an ecology upholding connection with Indigenous people shaped by modernity's constraints. They validate perspectives of colonized, marginalized individuals, linking to geopolitical histories of anticolonialism and environmentalism. The focus refutes colonial-capitalist ecological notions while integrating local and indigenous ecosystem models, advocating communal living. This book assesses how literary interventions in Africa align with ethical reorientation and ecological reimagining beyond colonial modernity and capitalism, advancing hope in the Anthropocene. The work transcends academic collaboration by cultivating soil and sowing seeds to co-create foundations for collective thinking and action towards a just, decolonial future, establishing mutual respect and equality, enabling integration of ecological, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable development.
This interdisciplinary volume sits at the intersection of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, African literature, and decolonial theory and will be valuable to scholars and students in fields including literary criticism, environmental studies, cultural studies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and sustainable development. The book will particularly appeal to researchers focused on Global South perspectives, decolonial methodologies, and ecological justice movements
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.
Contents
Introduction: Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature 1. Ecology and Decoloniality: Reading the Natural World in Twentieth-Century African Literature 2. Unfathomable Depths: "Deep Into Sacred Terrain" in Sir Ben Okri's "The Secret Source" from Tiger Work (2023) 3. Re-enchanted Bodies of Water: Towards a Decolonial Tidalectics in Recent African Fiction and Performance 4. An Eco-Decolonial Narrative: Toward a Dividual Self and Slow Wit(h)nessing in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea 5. The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry 6. Voices From the Fringes: The Eco-Poetics of Niger Delta Women 7. On the Politics of Making Life in the Ruins of Empire: Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities 8. Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha's Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness 9. "Knowledge Born in the Struggle": Activism, Decolonial Ecology, and Sustainability in Wangari Maathai's Unbowed: A Memoir
