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dc.identifier	ECF_article_14549
dc.title	“From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win”. A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
dc.contributor.author	Xausa Chiara
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2023/25/from-this-love-well-demand-our-rights-and-we-shall/
dc.description.abstract	This article proposes a reading of How Beautiful We We Were, a timely novel about intergenerational justice and politics published in 2021 by Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue. The first part of the article introduces the field of postcolonial ecocriticism and examines the historical and contemporary impacts of colonialism on the environment as represented in the novel. My reading then foregrounds the voices of resistance and activism of How Beautiful We Were’s young protagonists and their coming-of-age as postcolonial eco-citizens, and finally moves to highlight the urgency for environmental justice and decolonization in the face of ongoing global environmental challenges.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 25 \| Dicembre 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-18
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-07-21
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/015
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Coming-of-age
dc.subject	Imbolo Mbue
dc.subject	Neocolonial extractivism
dc.subject	Postcolonial eco-citizenship
dc.subject	Postcolonial ecocriticism

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“From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win”

A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were

Chiara Xausa Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italia

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This article proposes a reading of How Beautiful We We Were, a timely novel about intergenerational justice and politics published in 2021 by Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue. The first part of the article introduces the field of postcolonial ecocriticism and examines the historical and contemporary impacts of colonialism on the environment as represented in the novel. My reading then foregrounds the voices of resistance and activism of How Beautiful We Were’s young protagonists and their coming-of-age as postcolonial eco-citizens, and finally moves to highlight the urgency for environmental justice and decolonization in the face of ongoing global environmental challenges.

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18 Dicembre 2023

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01 Ottobre 2023

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21 Luglio 2023

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Keywords: Postcolonial eco-citizenship • Imbolo Mbue • Postcolonial ecocriticism • Neocolonial extractivism • Coming-of-age

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