Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature

ISBN-13: 9781776142187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Compassion for elephants?
• Chapter 1 No simple sort of mirror: Compassion and the pre-colonial
• Chapter 2 Experiment and devastation: Travelogue and the advent of zoology
• Chapter 3 A most delightful mania: Hunters’ tales
• Chapter 4 Not very good at remorse: Elephants in fiction
• Chapter 5 A tear rolled down her face: Teen fiction and the elephant mind
• Chapter 6 Bosses of the bushveld: Game ranger memoirs
• Chapter 7 Repeatedly folded frontier: The ‘field-research memoir’
• Chapter 8 The cult of the remnant: The elephants of Knysna and Addo
• Chapter 9 The elephant was unhappy: Poetry as compassion
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index