Natures of Africa : Ecocriticism and animal studies in contemporary cultural forms /
Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media....
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| Language: | English |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. 'Here is some baobab leaf!': Sunjata, foodways and biopiracy
- 2. Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songs
- 3. The environment as significant other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religion
- 4. Animal oral praise poetry and the Samburu desire to survive
- 5. The paradoxes of voluntourism: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websites
- 6. Towards an ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature
- 7. Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
- 8. Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature-culture in Borderline by William Dicey
- 9. Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila's Oil on Water
- 10. Human masks? Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine
- 11. Nature, animism and humanity in anglophone Nigerian poetry
- 12. Animals, nostalgia and Zimbabwe's rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.