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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457461803321

Autore

Caminero-Santangelo Byron <1961->

Titolo

Environment at the margins [[electronic resource] ] : literary and environmental studies in Africa / / edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth A. Myers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8214-4424-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MyersGarth Andrew

Disciplina

820.9/96

Soggetti

African literature (English) - History and criticism

Ecology in literature

Ecology - Africa

Ecocriticism - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1:  "A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured"; Chapter 2:  "Through the Pleistocene"; Chapter 3:  "Hunter of Elephants,Take Your Bow!"; Chapter 4:  Keeping the Rhythm, Encouraging Dialogue, and Renegotiating Environmental Truths; Chapter 5:  Sleepwalking Lands; Chapter 6:  No Longer Praying on Borrowed Wine; Chapter 7:  Whites Lost and Found; Chapter 8:  Waste and Postcolonial History; Chapter 9:  Never a Final Solution; Chapter 10:  Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants; Chapter 11:  Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor

ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 wr