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Drawing on scholarship in the fields of human geography, political ecology, and postcolonial ecocriticism, she considers isiXhosa poetry in translation within its cultural, historical, and environmental contexts, investigating how these poems struggle with the arrival and expansion of the exploitation of natural resources in South Africa and the entrenchment of profoundly racist politics that the process entailed. In contemporary South Africa, iimbongi remain a respected source of knowledge and cultural identity. 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This world, largely built by iterations of violence, still concentrates wealth into the hands of a few, and McGiffin reminds us that power wants to hold its grip, to reproduce itself.     my body an ark  carrying successors like a chambered nautilus     what i was placed here to do  ferry the unborn  across the inhospitable land  make a bed amid the thornbush  make a tea table, forge the domestic  bliss of my country  raise them as heirs  draw our lineage in the sand","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49754048954641,"sku":"NGR9780889779891","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740513693969,"sku":"NIN9780889779891","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889779899.jpg?v=1766224836"},{"product_id":"of-land-bones-and-money-book-emily-mcgiffin-9780813942766","title":"Of Land, Bones, and Money","description":"The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. 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