Overview
- Covers an interdisciplinary range of fields
- Focuses on contemporary African women's novels
- Highlights marginalised communities in their struggle against various forms of oppression
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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Front Matter
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Part VI
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About this book
This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address the following questions: How do contemporary African women writers depict the Earth/land/environment and its relationship to women in various contexts? How is religion featured in African women’s writing? How does religious literature (scriptures) form an intertextual layer in African women’s writing? The contributors proceed by analyzing the intersection of religion, gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, and ecology in selected texts written by African women. They bring these texts into conversation with broader eco-feminist theological scholarship, exploring the potential of literary writing to contribute to theological discourse of liberation and social justice in the African and global arena.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Zimbabwe Open University.
Musa Wenkosi. Dube is Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA.
Limakatso Pepenene is Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the National University of Lesotho.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers
Book Subtitle: Earth, Gender, and the Sacred
Editors: Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga, Musa Wenkosi Dube, Limakatso E. Pepenene
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48509-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48508-4Published: 24 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48511-4Due: 26 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48509-1Published: 23 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Feminist Theology, Gender Studies, African Literature, Cultural Studies, Ecology