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Of land, bones, and money : toward a South African ecopoetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGiffin, Emily, 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Under the sign of nature.
Subjects:
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa > South Africa > History and criticism.
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa > Political aspects > South Africa.
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of isiXhosa literature
  • Verse, violence, and the migrant labor system
  • Black mamba and the Durban/rural nexus
  • Versions of silence
  • Literature, Iimbongi, and ideologies of development
  • Neoliberal land reform and the vocal dispossessed
  • Appendix A. FOSATU, by Alfred Themba Qabula
  • Appendix B. Isibongo performed at the State of the Nation Address 2016
  • Appendix C. Izibongo performed by Thukela Poswayo.