Chielozona Eze

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination

We, Too, Are Humans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, literature and the environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780367708573
• ISBN-10: 0367708574
• Artikelnr.: 67822985

Autorenporträt

Chielozona Eze is a professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, where he is Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor. He is also Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the author of Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good
3. Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice
4. Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses
5. Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition
6. Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity
7. Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking
8. Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good