A postcolonial ecocritical reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Kwakuvi Azasu’s The Slave Raiders (2004)
African literature has suffered a great deal of scathing criticism, especially from western critics and scholars, who believe that Black African writers and critics have repeatedly focused on trite themes and subject matters of colonial/postcolonial nature at the expense of the global environmental...
Main Authors: | Rogers Asempasah, Christabel Aba Sam, Bertrand Azagsizua Abelumkemah |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2022-12-01
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Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2022.2145669 |
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