Death and Compassion - The Elephant in Southern African Literature

This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game-ranger memoirs, scientists' accounts and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, aboutwho shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect'.

Softcover. English. Wits University Press. 2018. ISBN: 9781776142187. 280 pp. Good. Book No: 2504526