Table of contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Contents
3. About the Editors
4. List of Figures
5. Chapter 1 Introduction
6. Part I Reimagining Animal Myths: Art, Stories, and Poetry of Bushmen
7. Chapter 2 Qing and the Animals of the Drakensberg-Maloti
8. Chapter 3 Kabbo Sings the Animals
9. Chapter 4 Interrogating the Sacred Art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper
10. Part II Indigenous Wisdoms, Animal Aesthetics, and Contemporary Materialities
11. Chapter 5 Spirit Guards: A Squad of Ceramic Dogs in South Africa
12. Chapter 6 Tricksters, Animals, New Materialities, and Indigenous Wisdoms
13. Part III Global Flows of Animal Myths and Allegories
14. Chapter 7 The Porosity of Human/Non-human Beings in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Anansi Boys
15. Chapter 8 Animated Animals: Allegories of Transformation in Khumba
16. Chapter 9 Magic Wells, the Stream and the Flow: The Promise of Literary Animal Studies
17. Part IV Creative Interventions in Literary and Art Histories of Indigenous Animal Practices
18. Chapter 10 Border Crossings: Animals, Tricksters and Shape-Shifters in Modern Native American Fiction
19. Chapter 11 I’m Mad You’re Mad We Are All Mad: The Alice Diaries
20. Part V Indigenous Traumas and Recoveries across Species Lines
21. Chapter 12 ‘The Only Facts are Supernatural Ones’: Dreaming Animals and Trauma in Some Contemporary Southern African Texts
22. Chapter 13 Cross-Pollinating: Indigenous Knowledges of Extinction and Genocide in Honeybee Fictions
23. Index