Kirk B Sides

Gebundenes Buch

Environmental Entanglements

African Literature's Ecological Imaginary

Beschreibung

Environmental Entanglements explores a long history of ecological thought in African literature and film. Beginning with the start of the 20th Century, the book focuses on authors who explore ecological relationships between land and people, from Mofolo to Plaatje Okorafor.

Autor

Kirk B. Sides is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a Research Affiliate with the Wits Center for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. After receiving his PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA, Kirk was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand's Institute for Social and Economic Research. He has published on African literatures and the environment in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, and Critical Philosophy of Race. Kirk has been a Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 155mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780197802069
• ISBN-10: 0197802060
• Artikelnr.: 74364137