Of land, bones, and money : toward a South African ecopoetics /

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The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGiffin, Emily, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Under the sign of nature.
Temas:
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa > South Africa > History and criticism.
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa > Political aspects > South Africa.
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Écocritique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > Nature.
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa.
South Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief history of isiXhosa literature
  • Verse, violence, and the migrant labor system
  • Black mamba and the Durban/rural nexus
  • Versions of silence
  • Literature, Iimbongi, and ideologies of development
  • Neoliberal land reform and the vocal dispossessed
  • Appendix A. FOSATU, by Alfred Themba Qabula
  • Appendix B. Isibongo performed at the State of the Nation Address 2016
  • Appendix C. Izibongo performed by Thukela Poswayo.

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