Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers

Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers

Earth, Gender, and the Sacred

Wenkosi Dube, Musa; Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai; Pepenene, Limakatso E.

Springer International Publishing AG

03/2025

270

Mole

Inglês

9783031485114

15 a 20 dias

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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.
Ecofeminism;sacred;spirituality;gender;African women;postcolonialism