Environment at the Margins Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa 1st Edition by Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Garth Myers ISBN 9780821419786 0821419781

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ISBN 10:  0821419781

ISBN 13:  9780821419786

Author: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Garth Myers

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 writers as Ngugi wa Thiong&;o, Mia Couto, Nadine Gordimer, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Ben Okri. These postcolonial ecocritical readings focus on dialogue not only among disciplines but also among different visions of African environments. In the process, Environment at the Margins posits the possibility of an ecocriticism that will challenge and move beyond marginalizing, limiting visions of an imaginary Africa.&;

Contributors:
Jane Carruthers
Mara Goldman
Amanda Hammar
Jonathan Highfield
David McDermott Hughes
Roderick P. Neumann
Rob Nixon
Anthony Vital
Laura Wright

Table of contents: 

1. “A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured”: Enframing and Reframing Eric Dutton’s The Basuto of Basutoland – Garth A. Myers

2. “Through the Pleistocene”: Nature and Race in Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails – Roderick P. Neumann

3. “Hunter of Elephants, Take Your Bow!” A Historical Analysis of Nonfiction Writing about Elephant Hunting in Southern Africa – Jane Carruthers

4. Keeping the Rhythm, Encouraging Dialogue, and Renegotiating Environmental Truths: Writing in the Oral Tradition of a Maasai Enkiguena – Mara Goldman

5. Sleepwalking Lands: Literature and Landscapes of Transformation in Encounters with Mia Couto – Amanda Hammar

6. No Longer Praying on Borrowed Wine: Agroforestry and Food Sovereignty in Ben Okri’s Famished Road Trilogy – Jonathan Highfield

7. Whites Lost and Found: Immigration and Imagination in Savanna Africa – David McDermott Hughes

8. Waste and Postcolonial History: An Ecocritical Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron – Anthony Vital

9. Never a Final Solution: Nadine Gordimer and the Environmental Unconscious – Byron Caminero-Santangelo

10. Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness – Laura Wright

11. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor – Rob Nixon

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