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.
Trade Review“This important, timely book offers a fresh perspective on African literature’s relationship to space, land ethics, and ecology. It brings an innovative approach to questions of land in African literature and will be read for its critical subtlety as well as for its experimental criticism and political commitment.”—Evan Mwangi, Northwestern University
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
