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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McGiffin, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Under the sign of nature.
Subjects:
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.
Ecocriticism
Environmentalism in literature
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa
South Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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