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OverviewEnvironmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approachesto a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fi ction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist‘powerhouses’ of Nigeria and South Africa. The chapters engage one another conceptually andepistemologically without an enforced consensus of approach. In their conversation with dominant ideas about nature and animals, they reveal unexpected insights into forms of cultural expression of local communities in Africa. The analyses explore different apprehensions of the connections between humans, animals and the environment, and suggest alternative ways of addressing the challenges facing the continent. These include the problems of global warming, desertification, floods, animal extinctions and environmental destruction attendant upon fossil fuel extraction. There are few books that show how nature in Africa is represented, celebrated, mourned or commoditised. Natures of Africa weavestogether studies of narratives – from folklore, travel writing, novels and popular songs – with the insights of poetry and contemporary reflections of Africa on the worldwide web. The chapters test disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, highlighting the ways in which the environmental concerns of African communities cannot be disentangled from social, cultural and political questions. This volume draws on and will appeal to scholars and teachers of oral tradition and indigenous cultures, literature, religion, sociologyand anthropology, environmental and animal studies, as well as media and digital cultures in an African context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: F. Fiona Moolla , F. Fiona Moolla , Byron Caminero-Santangelo , Sule Emmanuel EgyaPublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press ISBN: 9781868149131ISBN 10: 1868149137 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1: “Here is some baobab leaf!”: Sunjata, foodways and biopiracy Chapter 2: Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songs Chapter 3: The environment as significant Other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religion Chapter 4: Animal praise poetry and the Samburu desire to survive Chapter 5: Voluntourism paradoxes: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websites Chapter 6: Toward ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature Chapter 7: Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents Chapter 8: Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature and culture in Borderline by William Dicey Chapter 9: Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water Chapter 10: Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a Porcupine Chapter 11: Nature, animism and humanity in Anglophone Nigerian poetry Chapter 12: Animals, nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya About the Authors Acknowledgements NotesReviewsAuthor InformationFiona Moolla teaches African Literature at the University of the Western Cape. Her work focuses on the nexus between oral, print and digital cultures, highlighting human, animal, environmental and cosmic relationships. She is the author of Reading Nuruddin Farah: The Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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