Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually
extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for
a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the
twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being
killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons
for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants
are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliche: their
high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for
mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely
charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic
conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to
understand how and why people develop compassion - or fail to do so
- and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the
relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first
study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some
major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the
Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European
travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs,
scientists' accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures
imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants,
about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It
is the story of a developing contestation between death and
compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
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