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African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred

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The chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences and movements; and that they are intersectional, interreligious, ecumenical, and activist in character. The chapter also explores the linkage and experiences of Mother Earth and Mother Africa and their intersections with slavery, colonialism, neo-liberalism, gender, class, race, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, gender-based violence, and postcoloniality. The chapter’s exposition further indicates that African eco-feminisms are a depatriarchal, decolonial and an oppositional discourse, seeking to be in solidarity with Mother Earth and all groups that find themselves marginalized by the exploitation and oppression of Planet Earth. The chapter highlights how the book contents explore African eco-feminisms from the perspectives of African women writers. This book is therefore a contribution to African literary criticism, African Indigenous knowledges, Global South theologies, earth-care theologies and feminist /womanist eco-critical movements.

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  1. Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Musa W. Dube

  2. Research Fellow, Institute for Gender Studies, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa

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    Musa Wenkosi Dube

  3. Department of French, National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho

    Limakatso E. Pepenene

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Dube, M.W. (2024). African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred. In: Gudhlanga, E.S., Wenkosi Dube, M., Pepenene, L.E. (eds) Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48509-1_1

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