05293nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-48509-1 DE-He213 20251030111440.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240223s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031485091 978-3-031-48509-1 10.1007/978-3-031-48509-1 doi BT83.55 HRCM bicssc JFFK bicssc REL067000 bisacsh QRVG thema JBSF11 thema Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers [electronic resource] : Earth, Gender, and the Sacred / edited by Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga, Musa Wenkosi Dube, Limakatso E. Pepenene. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVIII, 270 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. African Eco-Feminisms--African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred -- Chapter 2. Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane -- Chapter 3. Creating while black and female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African feminist decolonial imaginary -- Chapter 4. Religion, Gender and Earth Categories in Lauri Kubuetsile’s But Deliver us from Evil (2019) -- Chapter 5. Kwasuka-sukela: A new paradigm to the African stories of women in Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless and They Got to You Too -- Chapter 6. The intersection of Earth, Gender and the Sacred in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names: Eco-Critical African feminist and Social Semiotics perspectives -- Chapter 7. Postcolonial Dislocation and the Psyche: Connecting the dots in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body -- Chapter 8 -- “That’s what happens when two worlds collide”: An intersectional reading of Bessie Heads short stories, “The Collector of Treasures and other Botswana Village Tales” -- Chapter 9 -- Generational search for home: History, race and gendered perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing -- Chapter 10 -- Border Crossing: Religion, Gender, Race and Class in the Journeys of Ifemelu in Americanah -- Chapter 11. The Dragonfly Sea: The Sea, the Land and One African Woman’s Voyage-in -- Chapter 12. The Victims: An African-Ecofeminist Reading -- Chapter 13. Marginality, cultural positioning and religion in ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya’s Singing Away the Hunger: Stories of a life in Lesotho -- Chapter 14. All Water is Connected: African Earth Spirituality and Queering Identity in AkwaekeEmezi’s Freshwater -- Chapter 15. Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku. 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. Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Zimbabwe OpenUniversity. 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. Feminist theology. 71621 Sex. 66477 African literature. Culture Study and teaching. 66082 Ecology . 68629 Feminist Theology. 71622 Gender Studies. 66478 African Literature. Cultural Studies. 58745 Ecology. 68629 Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 71623 Wenkosi Dube, Musa. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 71624 Pepenene, Limakatso E. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 71625 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031485084 Printed edition: 9783031485107 Printed edition: 9783031485114 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48509-1 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 57832 57832