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

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 interdependent collective, this book challenges us to act to reverse the extractivist plunder poised to render extinct most of what is presently known as the world. In their work, African photographers, filmmakers, and writers are increasingly resisting global capitalism’s extractivist ransacking of the African continent.In a continent responsible for only 3-4 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions yet destined to face some of the harshest effects of the climate crisis, artists are taking as their starting point a sense of kinship with the nonhuman.Drawing on these African ecocritical works, this book invites another way of seeing our interconnectedness with the African cosmological perception of the living, dead, unborn, human, and nonhuman.Each chapter considers what is missi