Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination We, Too, Are Humans

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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eze, Chielozona
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Routledge 2021 Knowledge Unlatched GmbH Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:	1
Series:	Routledge Contemporary Africa
Subjects:	Action & Adventure Africa African film African Literature African Literature & Language African literatures Biography, Literature and Literary studies Ecological Violence Fiction Follow Gender Good Life Hemorrhagic Fever Human Rights Human rights in literature Human rights in motion pictures Human rights-Africa Interdisciplinary studies Intimate Justice John Henryism Jurisprudence and general issues Justice Law LGBTQ Community Literary Criticism Literary studies: general Literature & Culture Literature: history and criticism Mandela Methods, theory and philosophy of law Mythic Consciousness Nelson Mandela Niger Delta Nnimmo Bassey Nnu Ego Nollywood Films Nonfiction Ordinary Virtues Philosophy Philosophy and Religion Pink Man Political Science Politics Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects Regional / International studies Restorative Justice River Nun Sex trafficking Sexuality Slow Violence South Africa Systems of law Tanure Ojaide Violated Young Man Good Life Ecological Violence Pink Man Young Man Nollywood Films Ivory Coast Intimate Justice Tanure Ojaide Follow Nelson Mandela Ordinary Virtues Final TRC Report Violated Nnimmo Bassey Hemorrhagic Fever Mythic Consciousness River Nun John Henryism Niger Delta Mandela Restorative Justice Human Rights LGBTQ Community Nnu Ego Slow Violence
ISBN:	9781000376258, 1000376257, 036770854X, 0367708574, 9780367708573, 9780367708542, 1000376273, 1003148271, 9781000376272, 9781003148272
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Table of Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Narratives and the common good -- 2 Ecological violence and the quest for justice -- 3 Mythic consciousness, witchcraft, and human rights abuses -- 4 Barriers to being: albinism, disability, and recognition -- 5 Intimate justice: homophobia and human dignity -- 6 Dignity of woman: from misogyny to sex-trafficking -- Conclusion: politics of love and the common good -- Index