Emily McGiffin

Gebundenes Buch

Of Land, Bones, and Money

Toward a South African Ecopoetics

Beschreibung

The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines the role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which they have helped inform responses to apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Under the Sign of Nature
• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780813942759
• ISBN-10: 0813942756
• Artikelnr.: 54430023