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JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN IMAGINATION we, too, are humans
(Routledge contemporary Africa series)

Material Type E-Book
Publisher [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE
Year 2021
Language English
Size 1 online resource

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URL E-Book 電子ブック(EBSCO: eBook Open Access Collection)
EB2202803
9781000376258

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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
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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

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