Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts

This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. It will be of interest to readers from across disciplines such as African Studies, Black Studies, Philosophy, Photography, Film Studies, and the environmental humanities.

Spring Ulmer is an Assistant Professor, Department of English, Middlebury College, USA.

Introduction: The extracted speak 1. THE EXTRACTED MEMORY (in the form of the African portrait): Solidarity with the nonhuman 2. THE EXTRACTED STONE: Unearthing the agency of minerals and anarchives 3.THE EXTRACTED OIL: How the masquerade flips the script of 'Shellspeak' 4. THE EXTRACTED FISH: Lurkings of kinopolitics in the water and the dark 5. THE EXTRACTED WORLD: The hope of green