Social Dislocation and Ecocritical Consciousness in Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21722443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Azeez Akinwumi Sesan (0000-0001-8217-7157, Osun State University, corresponding author), Ruth Olubunmi Adeniyi (Osun State University), Olubunmi Alaje (0000-0003-2300-2474, Osun State University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-93 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Green Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-8417 • E-ISSN: 2168-1414 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14688417.2025.2502331 |
| OpenAlex | W4410493418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Wole Soyinka’s artistic oeuvre, especially in dramatic genres, has covered a wide range of themes from culture contact/conflict to angst/disillusionment. His drama texts have engaged critical societal issues in tragic and comic modes with a view to making commentary on them. One of the plays in this category is The Swamp Dwellers – a play that underlines Nigeria’s anticipated ecological situations of social dislocation, ecocritical consciousness, environmental degradation and internal migration for survival. This play, however, has not attracted much critical attention unlike The Lion and the Jewel. This article critiques The Swamp Dwellers with the tenets of ecocriticism which emphasise that human activities have the propensity to impact the ecosystem. An ecocritical reading of the play reveals that Wole Soyinka foreshadows oil crises and other forms of ecological problems consequent upon neglect of rural dwelling with unbridled attention paid to the development of the city
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Dislocation · Ecocriticism · Epistemology · Literature · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Swamp · Comparative and World Literature · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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