Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media
Editor: Cajetan Iheka. Modern Language Association, 2021.
Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism. The scope is broad, encompassing not only the Global South but also parts of the Global North that have been subject to ...
African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
By Cajetan Iheka. Duke University Press, December 2021.
In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Pieter Hugo’s photography of electronic waste recycling in Ghana and Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary on ...
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
Edited by Rose McLarney, Laura-Gray Street and L. L. Gaddy. University of Georgia Press, October 2019.
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia — a hybrid literary and natural history anthology –showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region.
Ecologically, culturally, and artistically, Southern Appalachia is rich in paradox and stereotype-defying complexity. Its species range from the iconic and inveterate-such as the speckled trout, pileated woodpecker, copperhead, and black bear-to the elusive and endangered-such as the American chestnut, Carolina gorge moss, chucky madtom, ...