Death and compassion : the elephant in Southern African literature /

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"Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wylie, Dan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Englisch, ...
Southern African literature (English) > History and criticism.
Elephants in literature.
Wildlife conservation > Africa, Southern.
Littérature de l'Afrique australe (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Faune > Protection > Afrique australe.
Southern Africa.
elephants.
literature.
prose.
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Wildlife conservation.
Southern African literature (English)
Literatur
Elefanten > Motiv
Artenschutz > Motiv
Südafrika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No simple sort of mirror: compassion and the precolonial
  • Experiments and devastation: early travelogues and the advent of zoology
  • A most delightful mania: hunters' tales and evasions
  • Not very good at remorse: elephants in fiction
  • A tear rolled down her face: teen fiction and elephant mind
  • Bosses of the Bushveld: game-ranger memoirs
  • Repeatedly folded frontier: the 'field-research memoir'
  • The cult of the remnant: the elephants of Knysna and Addo
  • The elephant is unhappy: poetry as compassion.

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