Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-70854-2 (ISBN)
This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, literature and the environment.
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 various quests for justice 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.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good
Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice
Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses
Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition
Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity
Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking
Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Contemporary Africa |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-70854-X / 036770854X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-70854-2 / 9780367708542 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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