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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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