10.1007/978-6-6_4, the role of desire as “eating” appears here as government officials are bribed by business owners to approve their land-development proposals, and at the cost of sacrificing the homes, protection, and interests of the local inhabitants of these lands. Both novels portray competing claims for land as business proposals attempt to develop potential tourist locales by disenfranchising their current inhabitants through the rhetoric of Western notions of “development.” As in Chap. The Reluctant Passenger ( 2003) by Michiel Heyns and The Heart of Redness ( 2000) by Zakes Mda portray communities that struggle to protect themselves, their lands, and the animals with which they dwell from being used and abused to turn a profit for businesses.
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