The theme of the African Literature Association's (ALA) 2010 Conference, 'Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability,' follows in the ALA's tradition of organising their discussions around contemporary issues which engage the direction of literary studies. The volume opens with the conference's two keynote addresses and covers other papers and panels, all of which were concerned in some way with questions of ecology, sustainability, pollution and how contemporary literary studies address these issues.
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The theme of the African Literature Association's (ALA) 2010 Conference, 'Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability,' follows in the ALA's tradition of organising their discussions around contemporary issues which engage the direction of literary studies. The volume opens with the conference's two keynote addresses and covers other papers and panels, all of which were concerned in some way with questions of ecology, sustainability, pollution and how contemporary literary studies address these issues.