03200nam 2200649 a 450 991045746180332120200520144314.00-8214-4424-7(CKB)2550000000062300(EBL)1743680(OCoLC)884016791(SSID)ssj0000536313(PQKBManifestationID)11371194(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536313(PQKBWorkID)10549572(PQKB)10510989(MiAaPQ)EBC1743680(OCoLC)767806857(MdBmJHUP)muse15920(Au-PeEL)EBL1743680(CaPaEBR)ebr10509946(EXLCZ)99255000000006230020110513d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnvironment at the margins[electronic resource] literary and environmental studies in Africa /edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth A. MyersAthens, Ohio Ohio University Press20111 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1978-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PoorContributorsIndexEnvironment 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 wrAfrican literature (English)History and criticismEcology in literatureEcologyAfricaEcocriticismAfricaAfricaIn literatureElectronic books.African literature (English)History and criticism.Ecology in literature.EcologyEcocriticism820.9/96Caminero-Santangelo Byron1961-915432Myers Garth Andrew915433MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457461803321Environment at the margins2051953UNINA