Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Here is Some Baobab Leaf!’: Sunjata, Foodways and Biopiracy
- 2 Shona as a Land-Based Nature-Culture: A Study of the (Re)Construction of Shona Land Mythology in Popular Songs
- 3 The Environment as Significant Other: The Green Nature of Shona Indigenous Religion
- 4 Animal Oral Praise Poetry and the Samburu Desire to Survive
- 5 The Paradoxes of Voluntourism: Strategic Visual Tropes of the Natural on South African Voluntourism Websites
- 6 Towards an Ecocriticism in Africa: Literary Aesthetics in African Environmental Literature
- 7 Critical Intersections: Ecocriticism, Globalised Cities and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
- 8 Navigating Gariep Country: Writing Nature-Culture in Borderline by William Dicey
- 9 Negotiating Identity in a Vanishing Geography: Home, Environment and Displacement in Helon Habila's Oil on Water
- 10 Human Masks? Animal Narrators in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine
- 11 Nature, Animism and Humanity in Anglophone Nigerian Poetry
- 12 Animals, Nostalgia and Zimbabwe's Rural Landscape in the Poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Here is Some Baobab Leaf!’: Sunjata, Foodways and Biopiracy
- 2 Shona as a Land-Based Nature-Culture: A Study of the (Re)Construction of Shona Land Mythology in Popular Songs
- 3 The Environment as Significant Other: The Green Nature of Shona Indigenous Religion
- 4 Animal Oral Praise Poetry and the Samburu Desire to Survive
- 5 The Paradoxes of Voluntourism: Strategic Visual Tropes of the Natural on South African Voluntourism Websites
- 6 Towards an Ecocriticism in Africa: Literary Aesthetics in African Environmental Literature
- 7 Critical Intersections: Ecocriticism, Globalised Cities and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
- 8 Navigating Gariep Country: Writing Nature-Culture in Borderline by William Dicey
- 9 Negotiating Identity in a Vanishing Geography: Home, Environment and Displacement in Helon Habila's Oil on Water
- 10 Human Masks? Animal Narrators in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine
- 11 Nature, Animism and Humanity in Anglophone Nigerian Poetry
- 12 Animals, Nostalgia and Zimbabwe's Rural Landscape in the Poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Natures of AfricaEcocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, pp. i - ivPublisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2016