Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature

This book addresses the pressing issues of environmentalism and its representations in African literature. It emphasizes how African writers articulate the consequences of ecological degradation while engaging with decolonial thought that underscores the epistemic importance of the enslaved and colonized quest for humanity.

Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial studies, and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.

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Deirdre C. Byrne is the Director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), a practising poet, and a Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa. She has published research on decolonizing poetry in education in South Africa in Education as Change and has published on black and white decolonial feminisms in The International Journal of Women’s Studies. She has published ecofeminist readings of speculative fiction in Extrapolation and a forthcoming article on trees as memory repositories in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in The Lion and the Unicorn.

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