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"""McGiffin sets out to fill a serious gap in South African literary criticism, particularly that of ecocriticism, which has largely ignored indigenous forms and productions. Local ecocriticism still generally is attracted to writing that is recognizably 'nature'-oriented or 'environmentalist' along the lines of (mostly) North American ecocritical models - that is, mostly 'white' writing. McGiffin's exploration of Xhosa praise poetry challenges the appropriateness of these approaches. She also answers a call among postcolonial ecocritics for a more politicised ecocriticism, one concerned less with preservation of natural resources than with social justice, as well as a sturdier valorization of indigenous modes of being and thought."" --Daniel Wylie, Rhodes University, editor of Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa"

McGiffin sets out to fill a serious gap in South African literary criticism, particularly that of ecocriticism, which has largely ignored indigenous forms and productions. Local ecocriticism still generally is attracted to writing that is recognizably 'nature'-oriented or 'environmentalist' along the lines of (mostly) North American ecocritical models - that is, mostly 'white' writing. McGiffin's exploration of Xhosa praise poetry challenges the appropriateness of these approaches. She also answers a call among postcolonial ecocritics for a more politicised ecocriticism, one concerned less with preservation of natural resources than with social justice, as well as a sturdier valorization of indigenous modes of being and thought. --Daniel Wylie, Rhodes University, editor of Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa

McGiffin sets out to fill a serious gap in South African literary criticism, particularly that of ecocriticism, which has largely ignored indigenous forms and productions. Local ecocriticism still generally is attracted to writing that is recognizably 'nature'-oriented or 'environmentalist' along the lines of (mostly) North American ecocritical models - that is, mostly 'white' writing. McGiffin's exploration of Xhosa praise poetry challenges the appropriateness of these approaches. She also answers a call among postcolonial ecocritics for a more politicised ecocriticism, one concerned less with preservation of natural resources than with social justice, as well as a sturdier valorization of indigenous modes of being and thought. --Daniel Wilie, Rhodes University, editor of Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa

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Emily McGiffin is the author of two books of poetry, Between Dusk and Night and Subduction Zone, for which she received the 2015 Environmental Book Award (creative category) from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

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