LEADER 03164nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910806888003321 005 20240405000330.0 010 $a0-8214-4424-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062300 035 $a(EBL)1743680 035 $a(OCoLC)884016791 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536313 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371194 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536313 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10549572 035 $a(PQKB)10510989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743680 035 $a(OCoLC)767806857 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509946 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062300 100 $a20110513d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnvironment at the margins $eliterary and environmental studies in Africa /$fedited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth A. Myers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1978-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 327 $aContributorsIndex 330 $aEnvironment 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 606 $aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aEcology$zAfrica 606 $aEcocriticism$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 615 0$aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aEcology 615 0$aEcocriticism 676 $a820.9/96 700 $aCaminero-Santangelo$b Byron$f1961-$01721759 701 $aMyers$b Garth Andrew$0915433 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806888003321 996 $aEnvironment at the margins$94121576 997 $aUNINA