“A Sort of Arcadian Country”: Plant-Life in Some Early South African Travelogues

Title: “A Sort of Arcadian Country”: Plant-Life in Some Early South African Travelogues
Creator: Wylie, Dan
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458061
Identifier: vital:75713
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-iseaeng_v50_n1_a1
Description: Various branches of current ecocriticism are exploring ways of dismantling or at least diminishing dominant anthropocentric ways of evaluating the relationships among humans, the non-human world, and the literary imagination. Critical Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies, and multispecies ecocriticism endeavour to re-evaluate the roles, even agency, of non-human life, as represented in literary works. This article unpacks the depiction of plants in three early South African travelogues (1795–1836), illuminating the sources of some enduring assumptions and iconic imageries in our relations with the natural world.
Format: 22 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: English in Africa, Wylie, D., 2023. “A Sort of Arcadian Country”: Plant-Life in Some Early South African Travelogues. English in Africa, 50(1), pp.7-28, English in Africa volume 50 number 1 7 28 2023 0376-8902
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Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)

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