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

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) Series Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism Under the sign of nature 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2019) Subject Ecocriticism Environmentalism in literature Laudatory poetry, Xhosa -- Political aspects -- South Africa Laudatory poetry, Xhosa -- South Africa -- History and criticism Ecocriticism. Environmentalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature Laudatory poetry, Xhosa. South Africa. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018058604 ISBN 0813942772 electronic book 9780813942773 electronic book hardcover hardcover

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