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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
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