Springer open, 2016, 15 p., It is essential that the human race limits the environmental damage created by our consumption. A realistic pathway to limiting consumption would be to transition to a system where materials are conserved and cycled through the economy as many times as possible and as slowly as possible, greatly reducing the greenhouse gas-intensive processes of...
Research in African Literatures, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 2011). This essay makes use of Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” to explore Achebe’s novel as a project of historical reclamation. In so doing, I show how reading Things Fall Apart through the lens of Benjamin’s historical materialism can illuminate the revolutionary aspect of Achebe’s work, while the...
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