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Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today.
The volume covers most of the francosphere: Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, South America and Polynesia. As well as discussing a range of environmental issues, from soil erosion to nuclear testing, it also considers ways in which francophone writers have become ecological activists. The ecotexts discussed include graphic novels, visual narratives, and zines alongside more conventional literary texts such as novels, short stories and poetry.
The book seeks to decentre Belgium and France in francophone ecocritical scholarship while engaging in current debates in the field of ecocriticism, including the afterlives of Belgian and French colonialism and neo-colonialism in relation to climate change and environmental degradation, Blue Humanities, waste and toxicity studies, critical animal and plant studies, Indigenous peoples and their cultures and knowledges, climate-environmental (in)justice, and writerly/textual activism for climate and environment. It aims to widen the geographical scope of francophone ecocriticism by discussing a wide range of eco-themes that go beyond the segmentation and compartmentalisation found in other books in the field.
Contents
Introduction
Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott
Chapter 1. Afterlives of a Poisoning: 'Living-with' Pesticides in Martinique and Guadeloupe
Richard Watts
Chapter 2. Imaginary Futures with Sargassum: Towards an Aesthetics of Habitability from the Caribbean?
Jennifer Boum Make
Chapter 3. Decolonial Visual Narratives of a Nuclear Francosphere
Armelle Blin-Rolland
Chapter 4. Océanitude and the Francophone Blue Humanities: Thinking with and from the Ocean/ic
Giulia Champion
Chapter 5. Engineering Nature: Extractivism, Risk, and Environmental Crisis in Ahmed Tazi's Du pétrole et des outardes
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Chapter 6. Fissuring the Surface: Glissant's Poetics of the Concrete and Bétonisation
Emily Eyestone
Chapter 7. 'Cette terre volcanique me ressemble': Resisting the Colonial Imaginary in Ananda Devi's Pagli
Amanda Vredenburgh
Chapter 8. Silencing the Forest: Development, Urbanization, and Globalization in In Koli Jean Bofane's Congo Inc.
Isaac Joslin
Chapter 9. Vegetal Discourses in Contemporary Francophone Cameroonian Poetry
Eunice Ngongkum
Chapter 10. Relaying Nature's Voice: Non-Human Subjectivity and Agency in Francophone African Fiction
Etienne-Marie Lassi
Chapter 11. A Too Human Virus': Véronique Tadjo's En compagnie des hommes (2017) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Un trop humain virus (2020), Documenting the Planet's Decadent Demise
Valérie K. Orlando
Chapter 12. Radical Publishing and Ecological Consciousness in the Postcolony: the Story and Creative Legacy of French Guiana's Le Pou d'Agouti Collective
Sophie Fuggle
Chapter 13. 'I Love Her Like My Family': Cinema, Conservation, Cambodia
Leslie Barnes, Chea Sopheap, Penny Edwards, Khon Raksa and Yim Sotheary
Bibliography of Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index
