1st Edition

Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene

By Chukwunwike Anolue Copyright 2024
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. It interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 11 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial ecocriticism from an African perspective. It brings together the ecocritical theory of animism and theories of geologic time in the discussion of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Sacred and the Profane: Time and Nature as Autobiography  3. The Spoken Word and Creation  4. Nigeria and the Anthropocene  5. Living in the Capitalocene: A Nigerian Example  6. Concluding Reflection                  

Biography

Chukwunwike Anolue is a lecturer in English and Literary Studies at Bauchi State University, Gadau, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2021, he won the African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. His research interests span African literature, literature and the environment, time studies in literature, and feminist studies.