Garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature from the mid-1960s to the present Authors Costanza Mondo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22352569 |
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| Authors | Costanza Mondo (0000-0002-2236-4580, University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 223 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | STUDIES IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2545-2134 • E-ISSN: 2657-4187 |
| Publisher | University of Warsaw (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.32690/salc59.10 |
| OpenAlex | W4416926803 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature through contemporary literary sources, and sixties-seventies poetry from two East African literary journals. After exploring East African examples of Foucault’s “oriental garden”, I focus on the colonial English garden in East Africa and its transformation into a coveted status symbol after Independence. Drawing on MacKenzie’s “Empire of Nature” and Quijano’s “coloniality of power”, I employ literary sources to read the garden as a locus of Huggan and Tiffin’s “postcolonial ecocriticism” where practices of hope and power dynamics are played out in ways that are as meaningful today as they were in the sixties
Colonialism · East Asia · Poetry · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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