Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts: The Agency of the Extracted [Hardcover]

Introduction: The extracted speak? 1. THE EXTRACTED MEMORY (in the form of the African portrait): Solidarity with the nonhuman? 2. THE EXTRACTED STONE: Unearthing the agency of minerals and anarchives? 3.THE EXTRACTED OIL: How the masquerade flips the script of Shellspeak? 4. THE EXTRACTED FISH: Lurkings of kinopolitics in the water and the dark? 5. THE EXTRACTED WORLD: The hope of green

This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. It will be of interest to readers from across disciplines such as African Studies, Black Studies, Philosophy, Photography, Film Studies, and the environmental humanities.

Spring Ulmer is an Assistant Professor, Department of English, Middlebury College, USA.

'Ecocritical African literary and cinematographic works offer, Spring Ulmer argues, forms of resistance to racial capitalism, by refusing disposability and cultivating secret gardens. A remarkable, original work through which the author invites us to?unleash our political imaginations.'

Fran?oise Verg?s, Fellow, Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL, London.?

'A committed ecocritical reading of African lifeworlds that death cannot vanquish. A study in beauty told in prose that sing in the tenor of dark oxygen.'

Hugo ka Canham, Professor?and Director of Black Planetary Studies at the?Institute for Social and Health Science, University of South Africa and?author of?Riotous Deathscapes.

This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. Reminding us that we are all part of an interdependenl