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Environment at the margins : literary and environmental studies in Africa /

Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring togethe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, 1961-
Otros Autores: Myers, Garth Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: "A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured"; Chapter 2: "Through the Pleistocene"; Chapter 3: "Hunter of Elephants, Take Your Bow!"; Chapter 4: Keeping the Rhythm, Encouraging Dialogue, and Renegotiating Environmental Truths; Chapter 5: Sleepwalking Lands; Chapter 6: No Longer Praying on Borrowed Wine; Chapter 7: Whites Lost and Found; Chapter 8: Waste and Postcolonial History; Chapter 9: Never a Final Solution; Chapter 10: Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants; Chapter 11: Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor.