Environment at the Margins : Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa.
Başlık:
Environment at the Margins : Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa.
Yazar:
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron.
ISBN:
9780821444245
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (233 pages)
İçerik:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured": Enframing and Reframing Eric Dutton's The Basuto of Basutoland -- Chapter 2: "Through the Pleistocene": Nature and Race in Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails -- Chapter 3: "Hunter of Elephants, Take your Bow!" A Historical Analysis of Nonfiction Writing about Elephant Hunting in Southern Africa -- Chapter 4: Keeping the Rhythm, Encouraging Dialogue, and Renegotiating Environmental Truths: Writing in the Oral Tradition of a Maasai Enkiguena -- Chapter 5: Sleepwalking Lands: Literature and Landscapes of Transformation in Encounters with Mia Couto -- Chapter 6: No Longer Praying on Borrowed Wine: Agroforestry and Food Sovereignty in Ben Okri's Famished Road Trilogy -- Chapter 7: Whites Lost and Found: Immigration and Imagination in Savanna Africa -- Chapter 8: Waste and Postcolonial History: An Ecocritical Reading of J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron -- Chapter 9: Never a Final Solution: Nadine Gordimer and the Environmental Unconscious -- Chapter 10: Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness -- Chapter 11: Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis. Contributors analyze writings by colonial administrators and literary authors, as well as by such prominent African activists and writers as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mia Couto, Nadine Gordimer, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Ben Okri. These postcolonial ecocritical readings focus on dialogue not only among disciplines but also among different visions of African environments. In the process, Environment at the Margins posits the possibility of an ecocriticism that will challenge and move beyond marginalizing, limiting visions of an imaginary Africa.
Contributors: Jane Carruthers Mara Goldman Amanda Hammar Jonathan Highfield David McDermott Hughes Roderick P. Neumann Rob Nixon Anthony Vital Laura Wright.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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