Research Catalog

Title

Dogs in southern African literatures / Dan Wylie & Joan-Mari Barendse, editors.

Author

Wylie, Dan

Publication

Hatfield, Pretoria : Van Schaik Publishers, 2018.

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Additional Authors

Barendse, Joan-Mari

Description

202 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Contents include the following: Dog stories and why they matter - Art and dog communication - Dog guides as witnesses with specific reference to Miles and Houellebecq - Canine embodiment in South African lyric poetry - Symbolic values of the dog in Afrikaans literature - Afrikaans stories of Jackal and Hyena: oral and written traditions - Dark ecology and the representation of canids in Deon Meyer's Fever - Canine agents in two South African short stories - History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975-2015 - Wildness and colonialism in The Story of Two Dogs by Doris Lessing."--Publisher's description

Series Statement

Kwê-reeks ; 2

Uniform Title

• Kwê-reeks ; 2.
• Tydskrif vir Letterkunde ; 55.3.

Subject

• Dogs in literature
• South African literature
• Zimbabwean literature
• Southern African literature

Note

• "Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55.3 (2018) supplement."--Title page verso

Contents

Introduction: Dogs in every corner / Dan Wylie & Joan-Mari Barendse -- Dog stories and why they matter / Karla Armbruster -- Take a bow: art and dog communication / Wilma Cruise -- "We are all souls": dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin / Henrietta Mondry -- Dog guides as witnesses with specific reference to Miles and Houellebecq / Catherine du Toit -- Canine embodiment in South African lyric poetry / Wendy Woodward -- Symbolic values of the dog in Afrikaans literature / Gerda Taljaard-Gilson -- Afrikaans stories of Jackal and Hyena: oral and written traditions / Jacomien van Niekerk -- Oswald Pirow's Ashambeni (1955): a "history" of dogs, humans, werewolves / Joan-Mari Barendse -- On queerly reading canid tropes in Eben Venter's Wolf, Wolf / Wemar Strydom -- Dark ecology and the representation of canids in Deon Meyer's Fever / Bibi Burger -- Canine agents in two South African short stories / Mathilda Slabbert -- History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975-2015 / Innocent Dande & Sandra Swart -- Wildness and colonialism in "The story of two dogs" by Doris Lessing / Pat Louw -- "They've killed the dogs!": Land, literature and canines in contemporary Zimbabwe / Dan Wylie.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-4832

ISBN

• 9780627036637
• 0627036635

OCLC

1351637863

Author

Wylie, Dan, author, editor.

Title

Dogs in southern African literatures / Dan Wylie & Joan-Mari Barendse, editors.

Publisher

Hatfield, Pretoria : Van Schaik Publishers, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Kwê-reeks ; 2

Kwê-reeks ; 2.

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde ; 55.3.

Added Author

Barendse, Joan-Mari, author, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-4832