Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature

by Dan Wylie

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Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary

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, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1776142187

ISBN13:9781776142187

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Wits University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Nature

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