Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
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.
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Magister Artium - MA
Keywords
African literature, Ecocriticism, Science fiction, Magical realism, English writing