Natures of Africa : Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms.

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One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist 'powerhouses�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron
Otros Autores: Egya, Sule Emmanuel, Highfield, Jonathan Bishop, Mapara, Jacob, Mthatiwa, Syned, Musiyiwa, Mickias, Okuyade, Ogaga, Slabbert, Mathilda, Vital, Anthony, Moolla, F. Fiona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2016.
Temas:
African literature > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Folk literature.
Ecocriticism > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Environmentalism > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Littérature populaire.
Écocritique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Environnementalisme > Aspect social > Afrique subsaharienne.
African literature
Animals in literature
Ecocriticism
Environmentalism in literature
Environmentalism > Social aspects
Folk literature
Sub-Saharan Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. 'Here is some baobab leaf!': Sunjata, foodways and biopiracy; 2. Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songs; 3. The environment as significant other: The green nature of Shona Indigenous religion; 4. Animal oral praise poetry and the Samburu desire to survive; 5. The paradoxes of voluntourism: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websites
  • 6. Towards an ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature7. Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents; 8. Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature-culture in Borderline by William Dicey; 9. Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila's Oil on Water; 10. Human masks? Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine
  • 11. Nature, animism and humanity in anglophone Nigerian poetry12. Animals, nostalgia and Zimbabwe's rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Back Cover

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