09:00 - 10:30
The Environment in Contemporary African Literature, Film, Music and Art
Room: Aston Webb – WG12
Stream: The Environment in Contemporary African Literature, Film, Music and Art
Chair/s:
Douglas Kaze
09:00 - 09:15
We-A44 Environment and Literature-P-001
Early Visions of Ecological Catastrophe:
Palm Oil in Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Elinor Rooks
Independent Scholar, Penrith, United Kingdom
09:15 - 09:30
We-A44 Environment and Literature-P-002
The Blessing and the Curse; An Ecocritical reading of Nnimmo Bassey's "When the Earth Bleeds"
Vashti Suwa Gbolagun
University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
09:30 - 09:45
We-A44 Environment and Literature-P-003
African Literature and the Search for the (Non)Human
Cajetan Iheka
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States
09:45 - 10:00
We-A44 Environment and Literature-P-004
Ecology of the Body: A Reading of Chris Abani’s Graceland
Douglas Eric Kaze
University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria