Del 16 i serien Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today.The volume covers most of the francosphere: Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, South America and Polynesia. As well as discussing a range of environmental issues, from soil erosion to nuclear testing, it also considers ways in which francophone writers have become ecological activists. The ecotexts discussed include graphic novels, visual narratives, and zines alongside more conventional literary texts such as novels, short stories and poetry.The book seeks to decentre Belgium and France in francophone ecocritical scholarship while engaging in current debates in the field of ecocriticism, including the afterlives of Belgian and French colonialism and neo-colonialism in relation to climate change and environmental degradation, Blue Humanities, waste and toxicity studies, critical animal and plant studies, Indigenous peoples and their cultures and knowledges, climate-environmental (in)justice, and writerly/textual activism for climate and environment. It aims to widen the geographical scope of francophone ecocriticism by discussing a wide range of eco-themes that go beyond the segmentation and compartmentalisation found in other books in the field.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-07-11
Mått163 x 239 x 23 mm
Vikt596 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFrancophone Postcolonial Studies
Antal sidor304
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781836243144

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IntroductionNsah Mala and Nicki HitchcottChapter 1. Afterlives of a Poisoning: ‘Living-with’ Pesticides in Martinique and GuadeloupeRichard WattsChapter 2. Imaginary Futures with Sargassum: Towards an Aesthetics of Habitability from the Caribbean?Jennifer Boum MakeChapter 3. Decolonial Visual Narratives of a Nuclear FrancosphereArmelle Blin-RollandChapter 4. Océanitude and the Francophone Blue Humanities: Thinking with and from the Ocean/icGiulia ChampionChapter 5. Engineering Nature: Extractivism, Risk, and Environmental Crisis in Ahmed Tazi’s Du pétrole et des outardesEdwige Tamalet TalbayevChapter 6. Fissuring the Surface: Glissant’s Poetics of the Concrete and BétonisationEmily EyestoneChapter 7. ‘Cette terre volcanique me ressemble’: Resisting the Colonial Imaginary in Ananda Devi’s PagliAmanda VredenburghChapter 8. Silencing the Forest: Development, Urbanization, and Globalization in In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.Isaac JoslinChapter 9. Vegetal Discourses in Contemporary Francophone Cameroonian PoetryEunice NgongkumChapter 10. Relaying Nature’s Voice: Non-Human Subjectivity and Agency in Francophone African FictionEtienne-Marie LassiChapter 11. A Too Human Virus’: Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes (2017) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Un trop humain virus (2020), Documenting the Planet’s Decadent DemiseValérie K. OrlandoChapter 12. Radical Publishing and Ecological Consciousness in the Postcolony: the Story and Creative Legacy of French Guiana’s Le Pou d’Agouti CollectiveSophie FuggleChapter 13. ‘I Love Her Like My Family’: Cinema, Conservation, CambodiaLeslie Barnes, Chea Sopheap, Penny Edwards, Khon Raksa and Yim SothearyBibliography of Works CitedList of ContributorsIndex