LEADER 01134nam--2200385---450- 001 990002040980203316 005 20070301091634.0 035 $a000204098 035 $aUSA01000204098 035 $a(ALEPH)000204098USA01 035 $a000204098 100 $a20040930d1977----km-y0itay0103----ba 101 0 $aeng 102 $aUS 105 $a||||||||001yy 200 1 $a<> bibliography of russian word-formation$fDean S. Worth 210 $aColumbus [Ohio]$cSlavica$d1977 215 $aXLIV, 317 p.$d23 cm 410 0$12001 454 1$12001 461 1$1001-------$12001 606 0 $aLingua russa$xEtimologia$xBibliografie 676 $a491.7 700 1$aWORTH,$bDean S.$0185466 801 0$aIT$bsalbc$gISBD 912 $a990002040980203316 951 $aVIII.1. Bibl. 7(XII B 19)$b2400 L.M.$cXII B 959 $aBK 969 $aUMA 979 $aSIAVPROV$b10$c20040930$lUSA01$h1445 979 $aCOPAT2$b90$c20050512$lUSA01$h1149 979 $aCOPAT2$b90$c20050512$lUSA01$h1155 979 $aCOPAT6$b90$c20070301$lUSA01$h0916 996 $aBibliography of russian word-formation$91039916 997 $aUNISA LEADER 03685nam 22004933 450 001 9911008414503321 005 20241116060244.0 010 $a9781776142200 010 $a1776142209 035 $a(CKB)4100000008770595 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781776142200 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31778955 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31778955 035 $a(OCoLC)1109783548 035 $a(Perlego)1077269 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008770595 100 $a20241116d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeath and Compassion $eThe Elephant in Southern African Literature 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aJohannesburg :$cWits University Press,$d2018. 210 4$d©2018. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 327 $aFront Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Compassion for elephants? -- 1. No Simple Sort of Mirror: Compassion and the precolonial -- 2. Experiments and Devastation: Early travelogues and the advent of zoology -- 3. A Most Delightful Mania: Hunters' tales and evasions -- 4. Not Very Good at Remorse: Elephants in fiction -- 5. A Tear Rolled down Her Face: Teen fiction and elephant mind -- 6. Bosses of the Bushveld: Game-ranger memoirs -- 7. Repeatedly Folded Frontier: The 'field-research memoir' -- 8. The Cult of the Remnant: The elephants of Knysna and Addo -- 9. The Elephant Is Unhappy: Poetry as compassion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aElephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion - or fail to do so - and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists' accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect. 606 $aElephants in literature 606 $aSouthern African literature (English) 606 $aWildlife conservation in literature 615 0$aElephants in literature. 615 0$aSouthern African literature (English) 615 0$aWildlife conservation in literature 676 $a820.9968 700 $aWylie$b Dan$0696563 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008414503321 996 $aDeath and Compassion$94394397 997 $aUNINA