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Materiality and Nature: Writing Africa in the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2019

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Book Forum on Cajetan Iheka’s Naturalizing Africa
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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References

1 Iheka, Cajetan, Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 158 Google Scholar .

2 Iheka, Naturalizing Africa, 158.

3 Iheka, Naturalizing Africa, 17–18.

4 Iheka, Naturalizing Africa, 1.

5 Iheka, Naturalizing Africa, 127.

6 Flatschart, Elmar, “Crisis, Energy, and the Value Form of Gender: Towards a Gender-Sensitive Materialist Understanding of Society-Nature Relations,” in Materialism and the Critique of Energy, eds. Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti (Chicago: MCM Publishing, 2018), 121158 Google Scholar , esp. 139.

7 Flatschart, “Crisis, Energy, and the Value Form of Gender,” 141.

8 Iheka, Naturalizing Africa, 126.

9 See for instance, Mies, Maria, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour 3e (London: Zed, 2014 [1986])Google Scholar .

10 Harvey, David, “The Future of the Commons,” Radical History Review 109 (2011): 101107 CrossRefGoogle Scholar , esp. 103.

11 Flatschart, “Crisis, Energy, and the Value Form of Gender,” 144.

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14 Cunha, Daniel, “The Anthropocene as Fetishism,” in Materialism and the Critique of Energy, eds. Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti (Chicago: MCM Publishing, 2018), 5172 Google Scholar , esp. 54.

15 See Bond, Patrick, Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation (London: Zed Books, 2006)Google Scholar .

16 The debates over who writes African literature, for whom, from where, to where, and how are now so extensive and all-pervasive that I will not cite specific examples here.

17 See for instance Newell, Stephanie, West African Literatures: Ways of Reading (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)Google Scholar .