- Title
- Feral whispering, community and the reach of the literary
- Creator
- Wylie, Dan
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458091
- Identifier
- vital:75715
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC171542
- Description
- Google "elephant + basenji" and you will observe a remarkable event. Every so often, on the edge of Cecil Kop Game Reserve, bordering my home town of Mutare, Zimbabwe, one of the reserve's two elephants approaches the fence of a private house. On the house side is a Basenji dog. The two animals get as close to one another as the electrified fence permits. They seem to take a great interest in each other. Neither the other elephant, nor the household's other dog, participate in the exchange; this is a communing between two unique individuals. Sometimes, the elephant lies down, and she and the dog continue staring at each other. Just what is passing between them is impossible to say, but something is going on. Curiosity at least, and a measure of trust. Albeit tentative, a new, wholly unpredictable social aggregation has come into being, neither quite wild nor tamed: feral.
- Format
- 21 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa, Wylie, D., 2014. Feral whispering, community and the reach of the literary. English in Africa, 41(3), pp.119-140, English in Africa volume 41 number 3 119 140 2014 0376-8902
- Rights
- Publisher
- 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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Wylie, Dan (Emeritus Prof)
RU Department of Literary Studies in English
SDG 15. Life On Land
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