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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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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 |
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6. Towards an ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature7. 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 |
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11. Nature, animism and humanity in anglophone Nigerian poetry12. Animals, nostalgia and Zimbabwe's rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist 'powerhouses' of Nigeria and South Africa |
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Print version record |
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African literature -- History and criticism
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Animals in literature.
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Folk literature.
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Ecocriticism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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African literature
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Animals in literature
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Ecocriticism
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Environmentalism in literature
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects
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Folk literature
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Egya, Sule Emmanuel
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Highfield, Jonathan Bishop
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Mapara, Jacob
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Mthatiwa, Syned
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Musiyiwa, Mickias
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Okuyade, Ogaga
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Slabbert, Mathilda
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Vital, Anthony
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Moolla, F. Fiona
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| ISBN |
9781868149162 |
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1868149161 |
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