Zulu Poems of (and for) nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s environmental imagination in Imvunge Yemvelo (1972)

dc.contributor.authorNyambi, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorOtomo, Patricks Voua
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-20T06:53:36Z
dc.date.available2022-06-20T06:53:36Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractNature, climate crisis, and the Anthropocene have carved space in recent inter-, cross-, and multi-disciplinary humanities studies. In South Africa, such studies have barely touched literature in African languages. Nyambi and Otomo focus on the tropes of “lady nature,” nostalgia, and dystopia in Zulu writer Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s Imvunge Yemvelo to explore the complex ways in which these tropes test the normative epistemes of ecological crises. Beyond rejecting imperial distortions of indigenous environmentalism, Ntuli’s poems re-center local knowledge of nature in understanding its relationship with humans. That knowledge subverts epistemic structures of colonial conservation, revising and re-visioning racially geo-politicized knowledge hierarchies.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.135
dc.identifier.citationNyambi, O., & Otomo, P.V. (2021). Zulu Poems of (and for) nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s environmental imagination in Imvunge Yemvelo (1972). African Studies Review, 64(3), 547-568. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.135en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1555-2462
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/11683
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor(s)en_ZA
dc.rights.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectZulu cultureen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropogenic crisisen_ZA
dc.subjectIndigenous languagesen_ZA
dc.subjectGreen imperialismen_ZA
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_ZA
dc.titleZulu Poems of (and for) nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s environmental imagination in Imvunge Yemvelo (1972)en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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