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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans
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.
Author(s) | By Chielozona Eze (Northeastern Illinois University, USA). |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 172 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 31 May 2023 |
Availability | POD |
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.
Introduction Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism
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 Afr