Environment at the margins : literary and environmental studies in Africa / edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth A. Myers.

Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring togethe...

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Main Author: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, 1961-
Other Authors: Myers, Garth Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2011.
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Summary:Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis. Contributors analyze writings by colonial administrators and literary authors, as well as by such prominent African activists and wr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 295 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0821444247
9780821444245