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- Title
Subalternizing and Reclaiming Ecocentric Environmental Discourses in Zimbabwean Literature: (Re)reading Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing and Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors.
- Authors
Mutekwa, Anias; Musanga, Terrence
- Abstract
The authors examine the discourse on the natural environment in Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the books "The Grass Is Singing," by Doris Lessing and "Ancestors," by Chenjerai Hove. They claim that the settings of the books in colonial Zimbabwe indicated that the authors engaged with the environmental ideologies of the Western colonizers and the African colonized. A discussion on social ecology and ecofeminism is provided.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY in literature; ZIMBABWEAN literature; GRASS Is Singing, The (Book); ANCESTORS (Book); LESSING, Doris May, 1919-2013; HOVE, Chenjerai, 1956-2015; SOCIAL ecology; ECOFEMINISM in literature
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/isle/ist022