1st Edition
Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts The Agency of the Extracted
Introduction: The extracted speak 1. THE EXTRACTED MEMORY (in the form of the African portrait): Solidarity with the nonhuman 2. THE EXTRACTED STONE: Unearthing the agency of minerals and anarchives 3.THE EXTRACTED OIL: How the masquerade flips the script of ‘Shellspeak’ 4. THE EXTRACTED FISH: Lurkings of kinopolitics in the water and the dark 5. THE EXTRACTED WORLD: The hope of green
Biography
Spring Ulmer is an Assistant Professor, Department of English, Middlebury College, USA.
'Ecocritical African literary and cinematographic works offer, Spring Ulmer argues, forms of resistance to racial capitalism, by refusing disposability and cultivating secret gardens. A remarkable, original work through which the author invites us to unleash our political imaginations.'
Françoise Vergès, Fellow, Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL, London.
'A committed ecocritical reading of African lifeworlds that death cannot vanquish. A study in beauty told in prose that sing in the tenor of dark oxygen.'
Hugo ka Canham, Professor and Director of Black Planetary Studies at the Institute for Social and Health Science, University of South Africa and author of Riotous Deathscapes.
