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African fiction and Joseph Conrad : reading postcolonial intertextuality
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ISBN: 0791462617 0791462625 9780791462621 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York [SUNY] Press,

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By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this text examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of 'the canon' can serve.


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Different shades of green
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ISBN: 0813936063 0813936071 9780813936079 1306898382 9781306898386 9780813936062 9780813936055 0813936055 Year: 2014 Publisher: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press

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Different Shades of Green brings into dialogue a wide range of African creative writing--including works by Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda, Nuruddin Farah, Wangari Maathai, and Ken Saro-Wiwa--in order to explore vexing questions for those involved in the struggle for environmental justice, in the study of political ecology, and in the environmental humanities, urging continued imaginative thinking in effecting a more equitable, sustain¬able future in Africa.


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Environment at the margins : literary and environmental studies in Africa
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ISBN: 0821444247 9780821444245 9780821419786 0821419781 Year: 2011 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis. Contributors analyze writings by colonial administrators and literary authors, as well as by such prominent African activists and wr


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Refugee Imaginaries
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ISBN: 9781474443210 1474443214 9781474443197 1474443192 9781474443227 1474443222 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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The refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.--

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