Eco-human engagement in recent Nigerian poetry in English

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2178657
AutoresSule Emmanuel Egya (0000-0003-1888-1822, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas60-70
Fecha de publicación2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2012.677404
OpenAlexW1985571903
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas6

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