Between the Praise and Defense of Nature: An Eco-Critical Discourse of Niyi Osundare and Tanure Ojaide’s Eco-Poetry

Alabi, Oluwafemi Sunday

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“…The word eco-heritage suggests that the above mentioned are components part of a natural environment, which means that they are not originally man-made; rather they are nature's gift to humanity. In his description of natural environment, Oluwafemi Sunday Alabi (2021) notes:…”

Section: Eco-heritage Eco-criticism and Eco-poetry: Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monumental Inhumanity beyond Tears: Lamentations of Despoil in Nagaland and Niger Delta Eco-poetics

Okeke¹,

Aniago²,

Igbokwe³

et al. 2022

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This paper examines the social interventions, inclinations and paradigms in Temsula Ao’s poem “My Hills” and Tanure Ojaide’s poem “Delta Blues” as reflections and interrogation of deplorable human actions propelling the degradation eco-heritage in Nagaland Northeast India, and Niger Delta south-south Nigeria. Thus, our focus will be on how both poets present similarities in their lamentations and advocacy against monumental inhumanity destroying natural environment. Therefore, drawing from the concepts of eco-criticism, this paper examines nuance of advocacy and interrogation of the direct/indirect complicity and disinterest subsumed in the shades of actions and inactions of both ‘insiders’ and ‘others’ who are in many ways, interwoven in the social malaises and negativities Ao and Ojaide project. To add rigor to the analysis, this paper adopts ‘eco-criticism’, to discuss the portrayal of social identity questions, environment despoil, and the subsisting human/environment symbiosis in Nagaland and Niger Delta as portrayed in the selected poems. In the end, the study observes that the selected poems are advocacy texts subsumed in nuances of social intervention paradigms that project certain universal commons reflective of inhabitants of regions in despoil and environment degradation.

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Section: Eco-heritage Eco-criticism and Eco-poetry: Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%