Natures of Africa.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. 'Here is some baobab leaf!': Sunjata, foodways and biopiracy -- 2. Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songs -- 3. The environment as significant other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religion -- 4. Animal oral praise poetry and the Samburu desire to survive -- 5. The paradoxes of voluntourism: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websites -- 6. Towards an ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature -- 7. Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents -- 8. Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature-culture in Borderline by William Dicey -- 9. Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila's Oil on Water -- 10. Human masks? Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine -- 11. Nature, animism and humanity in anglophone Nigerian poetry -- 12. Animals, nostalgia and Zimbabwe's rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, 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.

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