The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

by Evan Mwangi

Book Overview

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies by analyzing how postcolonial African writing-including folktales, religion, philosophy, and anticolonial movements-has been mobilized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472054198
• ISBN13: 9780472054190
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"