Wole Soyinka as a Nigerian Ecofeminist and an Antipathetical to Globalized Experiences | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2023, Page 272-296 PDF (457.2 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2022.171974.1832 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
شيماء شعبان زكريا 
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| جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| African forests have always been rich in plants and animals for a long time. However, the present century witnesses unprecedented environmental deterioration. This degradation threatens the African forests making it vulnerable to extinction. This is the controversy of Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests. Wole Soyinka is a prominent playwright who emphasized the interconnectedness between women and nature, and their urgent need to get rid of the subjection imposed by a male-dominated regime. In 1986, Soyinka received Nobel Prize for his achievement in the arena of African literature. He is considered as a “prolific writer and genius” in Africa.As the major tenet of this research is to understand to what extent Wole Soyinka is seen as an ecofeminist playwright alienating globalized concepts, the researcher attempts a comprehensive analysis of his remarkably famous play, A Dance of the Forests (1963). This analysis engages the non-Nigerian reader to the core of the Nigerian natural society where Soyinka criticizes the deterioration of the morals of his society; a decay which coincided with the ruin of nature itself. The paper is divided into an introduction of the writer and the ecofeminist theory, an analytical account of the play and a conclusion of the findings of the research. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Soyinka; Ecofeminism; Nigeria | ||||
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