Naturalizing Africa : Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (Paperback)

Introduction: naturalizing Africa; 1. African literature and the aesthetics of proximity; 2. Beyond human agency: Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war; 3. Rethinking postcolonial resistance: the Niger Delta example; 4. Resistance from the ground: agriculture, gender, and manual labor; Epilogue: rehabilitating the human.