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T1 “No Forest, no water. No forest, no animals”: an ecocritical reading of Ekpe Inyang’s "The Hill Barbers"
T2 "Sin bosque, no hay agua. Sin bosque, no hay animales": una lectura ecocrítica de "The Hill Barbers" de Ekpe Inyang
A1 Nsah, Kenneth Toah
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 Postcolonial studies
K1 Postcolonial ecocriticism
K1 Cameroon anglophone literature
K1 Literary criticism
K1 Ekpe Inyang
K1 The Hill Barbers
K1 Ecocrítica
K1 Estudios postcoloniales
K1 Ecocrítica postcolonial
K1 Literatura anglófona camerunesa
K1 Crítica literaria
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB This article examines Ekpe Inyang’s play entitled "The Hill Barbers" (2010) using postcolonial ecocriticism. Combining postcolonial theory and ecocriticism—in order to foreground the author’s postcolonial Cameroonian/African society, the article investigates some of the numerous ecology-related issues raised in the play, among which deforestation, exploitation, capitalism, agency for nature, and the apocalyptic trope. It emerges, from both the play and article, that humans are destroying nature and are consequently suffering from this very destruction. Among the many effects of environmental destruction felt by the Mbungoe human community of the play are acute shortages of drinking water and dwindling animal species on their hills and mountains. One of the major findings of this article is the author’s ability to reconcile hitherto opposing ideologies and practices, such as Judeo-Christianity and African religions and Western science and African traditions, in seeking ways of redressing the increasing ecological problems faced within Cameroonian/African communities and elsewhere around the globe, advocating sustainable behaviour and respect for nature. The paper joins ongoing research attempts to apply ecocriticism in reading literature from postcolonial African societies.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33223
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33223
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 27-abr-2024