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Argues 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

    Writing on the Soil

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        Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/8/2023 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780472056200, 978-0472056200
        ISBN10: 0472056204

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Argues 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

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