“From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win”
This article proposes a reading of How Beautiful We We Were, a timely novel about intergenerational justice and politics published in 2021 by Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue. The first part of the article introduces the field of postcolonial ecocriticism and examines the historical and co...
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This article proposes a reading of How Beautiful We We Were, a timely novel about intergenerational justice and politics published in 2021 by Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue. The first part of the article introduces the field of postcolonial ecocriticism and examines the historical and contemporary impacts of colonialism on the environment as represented in the novel. My reading then foregrounds the voices of resistance and activism of How Beautiful We Were’s young protagonists and their coming-of-age as postcolonial eco-citizens, and finally moves to highlight the urgency for environmental justice and decolonization in the face of ongoing global environmental challenges.
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| spelling | doaj.art-073591a06c1648fdb68f66c7239b743f2023-12-18T17:04:04ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariIl Tolomeo2499-59752023-12-01252510.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/015journal_article_14549“From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win”Xausa, Chiara0Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italia This article proposes a reading of How Beautiful We We Were, a timely novel about intergenerational justice and politics published in 2021 by Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue. The first part of the article introduces the field of postcolonial ecocriticism and examines the historical and contemporary impacts of colonialism on the environment as represented in the novel. My reading then foregrounds the voices of resistance and activism of How Beautiful We Were’s young protagonists and their coming-of-age as postcolonial eco-citizens, and finally moves to highlight the urgency for environmental justice and decolonization in the face of ongoing global environmental challenges. http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/015Coming-of-age. Imbolo Mbue. Neocolonial extractivism. Postcolonial eco-citizenship. Postcolonial ecocriticism |
| spellingShingle | Xausa, Chiara “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” Il Tolomeo Coming-of-age. Imbolo Mbue. Neocolonial extractivism. Postcolonial eco-citizenship. Postcolonial ecocriticism |
| title | “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” |
| title_full | “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” |
| title_fullStr | “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” |
| title_full_unstemmed | “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” |
| title_short | “From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win” |
| title_sort | from this love we ll demand our rights and we shall win |
| topic | Coming-of-age. Imbolo Mbue. Neocolonial extractivism. Postcolonial eco-citizenship. Postcolonial ecocriticism |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/015 |
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