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

by Emily McGiffin

Book Overview

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which they have helped inform responses to segregation, apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942756
• ISBN13: 9780813942759
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"