JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN IMAGINATION we, too, are humans
(Routledge contemporary Africa series)
Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE |
Year | 2021 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource |
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Notes | Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses variousquests forjustice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Chielozona Eze is a professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, where he is Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor. He is also Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the author of Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa Open Access |
Authors | *Eze, Chielozona. |
Subjects | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:Human rights -- Africa All Subject Search LCSH:Justice LCSH:Restorative justice -- Africa All Subject Search LCSH:African literature -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Human rights in literature LCSH:Human rights in motion pictures BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM / African BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights FREE:African literature FREE:Human rights FREE:Human rights in literature FREE:Human rights in motion pictures FREE:Justice FREE:Restorative justice FREE:Africa |
Classification | DC23:323.096 |
ID | ED00003986 |
ISBN | 9781000376258 |