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- Title
Inverting Otherness in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow.
- Authors
FEGHABO, CHARLES CLIFF
- Abstract
Writings on oil exploration activities by multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have focused mainly on the despoiled environment and its alienating implications for the people of the area. Not much has been done to highlight the erosion of the sacred essence of women in the area and its consequence vis-à-vis their Otherness. This essay examines Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow to posit that 'womanity' (the sacred essence of woman) and humanity founded on autonomous female care for the environment are devalued, alongside ecological degradation, by the activities of the oil multinationals. The devaluation of Delta women pushes her further down the abyss of Otherness. Ecofeminism is employed in establishing the argument of this essay. Of central significance is education as a means of reconstructing Otherness and securing a future for Delta women.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; YELLOW-Yellow (Book); AGARY, Kaine; EDUCATION in literature; ECOFEMINISM in literature; PETROLEUM prospecting in literature; OTHER (Philosophy) in literature; FICTION
- Publication
Matatu: Journal for African Culture & Society, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 1, p315
- ISSN
0932-9714
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1163/9789401211093_019