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Of Land, Bones, and Money : Toward a South African Ecopoetics /
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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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 they have helped inform responses to segregation, apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.Emily McGiffin first discusses the history of the amaXhosa people and the environment of their homelands before moving on to the arrival of the British, who began a relentless campaign annexing land and resources in the region. Drawing on scholarship in the fields of human geography, political ecology, and postcolonial ecocriticism, she considers isiXhosa poetry in translation within its cultural, historical, and environmental contexts, investigating how these poems struggle with the arrival and expansion of the exploitation of natural resources in South Africa and the entrenchment of profoundly racist politics that the process entailed. In contemporary South Africa, iimbongi remain a respected source of knowledge and cultural identity. Their ongoing practice of producing complex, spiritually rich literature continues to have a profound social effect, contributing directly to the healing and well-being of their audiences, to political transformation, and to environmental justice. | ||
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