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Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers Earth, Gender, and the Sacred

This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address the following questions: How do contemporary African women writers depict the Earth/land/environment and its relationship to women in various contexts? H...

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Other Authors: Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai (Editor), Wenkosi Dube, Musa (Editor), Pepenene, Limakatso E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Subjects:
Feminist Theology
Culture / Study And Teaching
Gender Studies
African Literature
Ecology 
Cultural Studies
Ecology
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. African Eco-Feminisms
  • African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred
  • Chapter 2. Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane
  • Chapter 3. Creating while black and female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African feminist decolonial imaginary
  • Chapter 4. Religion, Gender and Earth Categories in Lauri Kubuetsile’s But Deliver us from Evil (2019)
  • Chapter 5. Kwasuka-sukela: A new paradigm to the African stories of women in Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless and They Got to You Too
  • Chapter 6. The intersection of Earth, Gender and the Sacred in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names: Eco-Critical African feminist and Social Semiotics perspectives
  • Chapter 7. Postcolonial Dislocation and the Psyche: Connecting the dots in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body
  • Chapter 8
  • “That’s what happens when two worlds collide”: An intersectional reading of Bessie Heads short stories, “The Collector of Treasures and other Botswana Village Tales”
  • Chapter 9
  • Generational search for home: History, race and gendered perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
  • Chapter 10
  • Border Crossing: Religion, Gender, Race and Class in the Journeys of Ifemelu in Americanah
  • Chapter 11. The Dragonfly Sea: The Sea, the Land and One African Woman’s Voyage-in
  • Chapter 12. The Victims: An African-Ecofeminist Reading
  • Chapter 13. Marginality, cultural positioning and religion in ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya’s Singing Away the Hunger: Stories of a life in Lesotho
  • Chapter 14. All Water is Connected: African Earth Spirituality and Queering Identity in AkwaekeEmezi’s Freshwater
  • Chapter 15. Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku

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