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Index
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Editors
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
Works Cited
Part I Reimagining Animal Myths: Art, Stories, and Poetry of Bushmen
Chapter 2 Qing and the Animals of the Drakensberg-Maloti
Introduction
Grant and Orpen
Qing and Rock Painting
Qing’s Animal Stories
Relationship with the /Xam Materials
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 3 Kabbo Sings the Animals
What Is Alan James Doing?
Who Are We Talking About?
Animism, Animals and Alterity
Poems as Experience
Works cited
Chapter 4 Interrogating the Sacred Art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper
Introduction
Background
Critique of the Sacred
David Lewis-Williams’s Shamanistic Theory
Vetkat’s Art as Departure from Tradition
Conclusion
Works Cited
Part II Indigenous Wisdoms, Animal Aesthetics, and Contemporary Materialities
Chapter 5 Spirit Guards: A Squad of Ceramic Dogs in South Africa
Chapter 6 Tricksters, Animals, New Materialities, and Indigenous Wisdoms
Dark Haecceities: Deleuzoguattarian and Afrofuturist Science Fiction
Mapping the Ectoplasmic, Treacherous and Fantastical
Asha Zero: Shattering Assumptions of Origins and Boundary
Mer Roberts: Crafting Vehicles of Experimental Becoming
Ingrid Winterbach: Arche-Fossils and Fever Dreams
Conclusion
Works Cited
Part III Global Flows of Animal Myths and Allegories
Chapter 7 The Porosity of Human/Non-human Beings in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Anansi Boys
Works Cited
Chapter 8 Animated Animals: Allegories of Transformation in Khumba
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Works Cited
Chapter 9 Magic Wells, the Stream and the Flow: The Promise of Literary Animal Studies
Works Cited
Part IV Creative Interventions in Literary and Art Histories of Indigenous Animal Practices
Chapter 10 Border Crossings: Animals, Tricksters and Shape-Shifters in Modern Native American Fiction
Works Cited
Chapter 11 I’m Mad You’re Mad We Are All Mad: The Alice Diaries
Works Cited
Part V Indigenous Traumas and Recoveries across Species Lines
Chapter 12 ‘The Only Facts are Supernatural Ones’: Dreaming Animals and Trauma in Some Contemporary Southern African Texts
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 13 Cross-Pollinating: Indigenous Knowledges of Extinction and Genocide in Honeybee Fictions
Why Honeybees?
Propping Personhood
Swarming Girls
Becoming Swarm
Swarming Futures
Works Cited
Index
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