Summary

This article explores the notion of a South African ecocriticism by firstly placing it against the background of the ongoing debates about the relationship between postcolonialism and ecocriticism and secondly by situating it within the context of African ecocriticism. It points out the most important characteristics of South African ecocriticism, focusing on the impact of South Africa’s colonial history on environmental matters, the subsequent entanglement of environmental with social matters as well as the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity. The “dynamism and contingency” (Wylie 2006: 266) typical of South African ecocriticism is further considered by a comparative reading of two recent South African novels that present dystopian views of a future environment, Henrietta Rose-Innes’s English novel Green Lion (2015), which deals with animal extinction, and Alettie van den Heever’s Afrikaans novel Stof [Dust] (2018), which focuses on plant extinction.

概括

本文首先通过将南非生态批评的概念置于正在进行的关于后殖民主义与生态批评之间关系的辩论的背景下，其次将其置于非洲生态批评的背景之下来探讨南非的生态批评的概念。它指出了南非生态批评的最重要特征，重点是南非殖民历史对环境问题的影响，随后环境与社会问题的纠缠以及该国语言和文化多样性的影响。南非生态批评的典型“动力和偶然性”（Wylie 2006：266）通过对两本最近的南非小说进行比较阅读而得到进一步考虑，这两本小说提出了反乌托邦对未来环境的看法，亨利埃塔·罗斯·因内斯（Henrietta Rose-Innes）的英文小说《绿狮》。（2015），其涉及动物的灭绝，Alettie范登Heever的语新颖STOF [尘]（2018），其重点是植物灭绝。