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Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

By (author) Ainehi Edoro

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Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novelâ€™s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. Ainehi Edoro argues that forests in African fiction are laboratories for unmaking and remaking the world, where writers break apart familiar forms to test alternate forms of life, knowledge, and power. Instead of treating the forest as a backdrop, these writers imagine it as a living structure: a space where politics, history, myth, violence, technology, the magical, and creativity animate fictional worlds. Spanning indigenous African narratives and contemporary science fiction, Forest Imaginaries traces the lineage of forest worlds in African literature: Chinua Achebeâ€™s evil forest, the cosmic forest in Wá»le á¹¢Ã³yÃnkÃ¡â€™s mythic imagination, Thomas Mofoloâ€™s forest of imperial dreams, Amos Tutuolaâ€™s endless fractal forest, and Nnedi Okoraforâ€™s aquatic forest of new ecological futures. This book rethinks African literary history by showing how African writers draw on the forestâ€”and the wealth of Indigenous ideas about time, space, and storytelling it conjuresâ€”to transform the novelâ€™s aesthetic, political, and philosophical horizons.

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