African Literary Aesthetics and Nature

Re-Reading Eco-Criticism in African Literature

Andrew Nyongesa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

165 Seiten

2026 | 2026
Brill | Fink (Verlag)
9783770569984 (ISBN)

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Despite the literary transition from modernist to postmodernist canons such as eco-criticism, Western modernist scholarship pervades their theorization, which contradicts African perspectives on the ecological environment. While Western scholarship is based on binaries that present nature as a separate other, African thought elevates the ecological environment as equal or better than humankind. This book cross-examines the major tenets of eco-criticism to evaluate their relevance to African Literature. Using postcolonial theory, the study interrogates contemporary tenets that dismiss as "homocentric" any literary works that adopt images from the ecological environment for aesthetic expression. The texts under study are Saadawi's Love in the Kingdom of Oil, Amadi's The Concubine, Ngugi's The River Between, Bitek's Song of Lawino, poems from Tendai and Purifacacao's 2017 Anthology and selected works of African folklore such as jokes, proverbs and songs from books and social media.

Andrew Nyongesa is a lecturer of literary studies at Murang'a University of Technology (Kenya) and a research fellow at the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa. He is also a dedicated writer-his published works are The Pearl on the Horizon (2024) Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction (2024) by Routledge and Towards a Theory of Spirit Possession (2025) by Brill.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	African Literatures in English ; 5
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • African • African literature • Afrocentricism • Andrew • Binaries • climate change • Criticism • eco-criticism • Ecological Environment • Homocentric • Literary • Literature • Nature • Nyongesa • postcolonial theory • Reading • western scholarship
ISBN-13	9783770569984 / 9783770569984
Zustand	Neuware