Death and compassion : the elephant in Southern African literature /
"Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate,...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press
2018.
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Online Erişim: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.18772/12018102187 |
İçindekiler:
- No simple sort of mirror: compassion and the precolonial
- Experiments and devastation: early travelogues and the advent of zoology
- A most delightful mania: hunters' tales and evasions
- Not very good at remorse: elephants in fiction
- A tear rolled down her face: teen fiction and elephant mind
- Bosses of the Bushveld: game-ranger memoirs
- Repeatedly folded frontier: the 'field-research memoir'
- The cult of the remnant: the elephants of Knysna and Addo
- The elephant is unhappy: poetry as compassion.