English South African children’s literature and the environment

English South African children’s literature and the environment

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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English.This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies bovi-shield gold fp 5 l5 of South African social history and literature.There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing 30x24x24 wall cabinet roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment.

Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife.In recent years English-language children’s writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.