Browsing by Author "Moolla, Fatima"

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    Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
    (University of Pretoria, 2015) Moolla, Fatima
    This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim alKoni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ecocritically pertinent of the novels in English translation suggests that the natural world is viewed through the lens of the mythical, encompassing the religious worlds of both Tuareg animism, as well as monotheism represented by Islam and early Christianity. The novels to be considered are The Seven Veils of Seth, Anubis and The Bleeding of the Stone. Unlike environmental approaches which derive from the European Enlightenment of procedural rational disenchantment, human beings in Al-Koni�s work are accorded a place in the sacred order which allows non-parasitic modes of existence within the framework of a sacred law.
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    Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Malgas, Lester; Moolla, Fatima
    This is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment— which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). According to Ghosh the conventions of literary realism, and the context within which those conventions gained ascendancy, present a range of shortcomings in respect of the depiction of climate change in literature.