Book/Printed Material Justice and human rights in the African imagination : we, too, are humans

Title

• Justice and human rights in the African imagination : we, too, are humans

Summary

• 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.

Names

• Eze, Chielozona, author

Created / Published

• London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

Contents

• Introduction -- Narratives and the common good -- Ecological violence and the quest for justice -- Mythic consciousness, witchcraft, and human rights abuses -- Barriers to being : albinism, disability, and recognition -- Intimate justice : homophobia and human dignity -- Dignity of woman : from misogyny to sex-trafficking -- Conclusion : politics of love and the common good.

Headings

• -  Human rights--Africa
• -  Justice
• -  Restorative justice--Africa
• -  African literature--History and criticism
• -  Human rights in literature
• -  Human rights in motion pictures
• -  Droits de l'homme (Droit international)--Afrique
• -  Justice réparatrice--Afrique
• -  Littérature africaine--Histoire et critique
• -  Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature
• -  African literature
• -  Human rights
• -  Restorative justice
• -  Africa

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• JC599.A35

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023701169

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023701169

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023701169

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