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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, 1961-

Contributor:

Myers, Garth Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Ecology in literature.

Ecology--Africa.

Ecology.

Ecocriticism--Africa.

Ecocriticism.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444245

0821444247

OCLC:

884016791