Abstract
ABSTRACT In a world in which sometimes irreconcilable currents of globalization threaten to destabilize both notions of identity and belonging and the language in which such belonging is expressed, many writers turn to the specifics of locality as a form of resistance. The flattening-out effects of mainstream global culture are countered by poetics which are at once deliberately marginal (eccentric) and focused on the unique textures and denizens of regional natural biomes or ecosystems (ecocentric). Some ways in which the tendency towards such a doctrine or mindset has manifested in South Africa's Eastern Cape is explored in the work of four poets: Thomas Pringle, Chris Mann, Robert Berold and Don Maclennan.
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