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Of Land, Bones, and Money : Toward a South African Ecopoetics.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Under the Sign of Nature SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813942773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Of Land, Bones, and MoneyDDC classification:
  • 896.39851009
LOC classification:
  • PL8795.7 .M345 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1: A Brief History of isiXhosa Literature -- 2: Verse, Violence, and the Migrant Labor System -- 3: Black Mamba and the Durban/ R rural Nexus -- 4: Versions of Silence -- 5: Literature, Iimbongi, and Ideologies of Development -- 6: Land Expropriation without Compensation and the Vocal Dispossessed -- Conclusion -- 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 -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Recent Books in the Series -- Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism.
Summary: Their ongoing practice of producing complex, spiritually rich literature continues to have a profound social effect, contributing directly to the healing and well-being of their audiences, to political transformation, and to environmental justice.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1: A Brief History of isiXhosa Literature -- 2: Verse, Violence, and the Migrant Labor System -- 3: Black Mamba and the Durban/ R rural Nexus -- 4: Versions of Silence -- 5: Literature, Iimbongi, and Ideologies of Development -- 6: Land Expropriation without Compensation and the Vocal Dispossessed -- Conclusion -- 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 -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Recent Books in the Series -- Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism.

Their ongoing practice of producing complex, spiritually rich literature continues to have a profound social effect, contributing directly to the healing and well-being of their audiences, to political transformation, and to environmental justice.

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