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The Effluent Eye
Author Biography

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Positive Country: A Preface with Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Effluence, “Waste,” and African Humanism: Extra-Anthropocentric Being and Human Right-Making
  11. 2. Effluence in Disease: Ebola and HIV as Case Studies of Debility in the Postcolonial State
  12. 3. Addiction and Its Formations under Capitalism: Refusing the Bubble and Effluent Persistence
  13. 4. Trauma “Exceptionalism” and Sexual Assault in Global Contexts: Methodologies and Epistemologies of the Effluent
  14. 5. Effluent Capacity and the Human Right-Making Artifact: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Geobiography
  15. Afterword: Simultaneous Reading and Slow Becoming
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Author Biography

Author Biography

Rosemary J. Jolly is Sparks Chair of Literature and Human Rights at the Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Colonization, Violence, and Narration and Cultured Violence: Narrative, Social Suffering, and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa and coeditor of Writing South Africa.

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.

Portions of the Preface, chapter 2, and chapter 5 were originally published as “Pandemic Crises: The Anthropocene as Pathogenic Cycle,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27, no. 4 (2020): 809–22. Portions of the Introduction and chapter 1 are adapted from “Effluence, ‘Waste,’ and African Humanism: Extra-Anthropocentric Being and Human Rightness,” Social Dynamics 44, no. 1 (2018): 158–78; copyright Taylor & Francis: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533952.2018.1449723. Portions of the Introduction, chapter 2, chapter 3, and chapter 5 are adapted from “Decolonising ‘Man,’ Resituating Pandemic: An Intervention in the Pathogenesis of Colonial Capitalism,” Medical Humanities 48, no. 2 (2022): 221–29; https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012267.

Excerpts from Antjie Krog’s “Rondeau in Vier Diele” and M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong #1” are reprinted with permission of the authors.

Copyright 2023 by Rosemary J. Jolly

The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0): creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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