Eco-human engagement in recent Nigerian poetry in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sule Emmanuel Egya (0000-0003-1888-1822, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-70 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2012.677404 |
| OpenAlex | W1985571903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 6 |
With particular reference to the work of Nnimmo Bassey and Ogaga Ifowodo, this article discusses the ongoing engagement of Nigerian poets with issues of ecology. It argues that, for these poets, issues of ecology are largely bound up with the fate of the human beings who depend for their survival on their environment, through fishing and farming. These poets emerged in the 1980s with a strong sense of commitment to their immediate environment, which, in their view, had been brutalized by the national government and corporate bodies, and so their concerns are identified as part of a larger crisis over leadership
Agriculture · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Fishing · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
Victimhood Self-construal, Irony of Tears and Melancholy amid Wealth
Nnimmo Bassey’s Aesthetic Imagination and Social Meaning in We Thought It Was Oil but It Was Blood
Nature as a symbiotic edge of humanity
Chief Adolphus Munamuna, Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịjọ Ibe (the chief oral poet of the Ịjọ nation)
Introduction
Halk Çevreciliğinin Ürettiği Yeni Bir Şiir Türü
We are the Delta
Weeping in the Face of Fortune
Nature and environmentalism of the poor
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |