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Hardback. New. Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework employing postcolonial studies, political ecology, environmental history, and writing by African environmental activists, Byron Caminero-Santangelo emphasizes connections within African environmental literature, highlighting how African writers have challenged unjust, ecologically destructive forms of imperial development and resource extraction. Different Shades of Green also brings into dialogue a wide range of African creative writing - including works by Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda, Nuruddin Farah, Wangari Maathai, and Ken Saro-Wiwa - in order to explore vexing questions for those involved…
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- Title Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
- Author Byron Caminero-Santangelo
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press
- Date 2014-07-16
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780813936055 / 0813936055
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Interdisciplinary Studies: African
- Library of Congress subjects Ecology - Africa, African literature (English) - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013041283
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.996
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