Anthony Vital
Biographic Data
| ID | 4867977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Vital |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Vital |
| SIGNATURE | VITAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transcend Engineering (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Intersections
A Place for Romanticism in Postcolonial Ecology? Julia Martin's South African Travelogue, A Millimetre of Dust
Toward an African Ecocriticism
Recent articles have called for postcolonial and ecology-minded criticism to engage with each other, suggesting, too, some of the points of difficulty they might encounter when they do. One point of difficulty lies in how these two forms of criticism develop differing evaluations of discourse and its relation to what counts as real. This essay proposes resolving this difficulty with a materialist apprehension of discourse and suggests that a post…
Situating Ecology in Recent South African Fiction
The culture of environmentalism in South Africa changed through the 1990s, influenced by the country's transition to democratic government. Environmentalism during the apartheid era retained features of an earlier colonial interest in conservation, but with the political change, tendencies have emerged that link environmental and social well-being in ways that are 'people-centred'. This new culture can be understood as developing a postcolonial u…
Toward an African Ecocriticism
Recent articles have called for postcolonial and ecology-minded criticism to engage with each other, suggesting, too, some of the points of difficulty they might encounter when they do. One point of difficulty lies in how these two forms of criticism develop differing evaluations of discourse and its relation to what counts as real. This essay proposes resolving this difficulty with a materialist apprehension of discourse and suggests that a post…
Situating Ecology in Recent South African Fiction
The culture of environmentalism in South Africa changed through the 1990s, influenced by the country's transition to democratic government. Environmentalism during the apartheid era retained features of an earlier colonial interest in conservation, but with the political change, tendencies have emerged that link environmental and social well-being in ways that are 'people-centred'. This new culture can be understood as developing a postcolonial u…
A Place for Romanticism in Postcolonial Ecology? Julia Martin's South African Travelogue, A Millimetre of Dust
Situating Ecology in Recent South African Fiction
The culture of environmentalism in South Africa changed through the 1990s, influenced by the country's transition to democratic government. Environmentalism during the apartheid era retained features of an earlier colonial interest in conservation, but with the political change, tendencies have emerged that link environmental and social well-being in ways that are 'people-centred'. This new culture can be understood as developing a postcolonial u…
Toward an African Ecocriticism
Recent articles have called for postcolonial and ecology-minded criticism to engage with each other, suggesting, too, some of the points of difficulty they might encounter when they do. One point of difficulty lies in how these two forms of criticism develop differing evaluations of discourse and its relation to what counts as real. This essay proposes resolving this difficulty with a materialist apprehension of discourse and suggests that a post…
A Place for Romanticism in Postcolonial Ecology? Julia Martin's South African Travelogue, A Millimetre of Dust
Critical Intersections
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)