Description
Book SynopsisArgues that representations of land and landscape perform metaphorical labour in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter’s analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Land & Landscape in Literature from Eastern & Southern Africa
- Chapter 1: Settlers, Lands, & Landscapes: Mystical Realism and the Presence of Nonhuman Life
- Chapter 2: Land & Landscape in Zimbabwean Narratives of Transcendence
- Chapter 3: Belonging & Mobility: Representations of Kenyan & Tanzanian Urban Landscapes
- Chapter 4: African Languages, African Socialisms, & Representations of Lands & Landscapes
- Chapter 5: Representations of Lands & Landscapes at the Humanity-Ecology Interface
- Coda: This Future Lies in the Past
- Works Cited
