• Login
    View Item 
    •   MUT Research Archive
    • Books and Book Chapters
    • School of Humanities and Social Sciences(BC)
    • Books & Book Chapters (HSS)
    • View Item
    •   MUT Research Archive
    • Books and Book Chapters
    • School of Humanities and Social Sciences(BC)
    • Books & Book Chapters (HSS)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Abstract (58.62Kb)
    Date
    2022
    Author
    Nyongesa, Andrew W.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    As the title, Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction suggests, this book seeks to restore the principal influence of Mother Nature in human life. Individual literary critics have demonstrated how literary writers have deliberately presented the impact of Mother Nature on the lives of characters. However, most of them have hardly demonstrated the indispensable role of ecological environment on the political, social and religious attributes of human life. Although most scholars single out human greed and imperialism as the prime causes of historical events such as colonialism, war, slavery and industrialisation, this book extendsit by investigating the influence of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels. This book is close textual analysis of works of fiction from any regions of the globe. The wide scope of choice of texts is deliberate because ecological issues are global and should be given the gravity they deserve in every continent. This study would have used academic and journalistic primary texts, but I choose literary texts because literature has the capacity to speak to hearts rather than minds of audiences. According to Brueggemann (1989): To address the issue of a truth greatly reduced requires us to be poets that speak against a prose world. The terms of that phrase are readily misunderstood. By prose I refer to a world that is organised in settled formulae, so that even pastoral prayers and love letters sound like memos (48) Brueggemann in the line “speak against prose world” suggests that works of art possess certain unconventionality that will invert the homocentric ethos that has constantly relegated Mother Nature.
    URI
    https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/re-centring-mother-earth
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363700736_Re-centring_Mother_Earth_Ecological_Reading_of_Contemporary_Works_of_Fiction
    https://books.google.co.ke/books/about/Re_centring_Mother_Earth.html?id=IKiTEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
    http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6156
    Collections
    • Books & Book Chapters (HSS) [7]

    MUT Library copyright © 2017-2024  MUT Library Website
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
     

     

    Browse

    All of Research ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    MUT Library copyright © 2017-2024  MUT Library Website
    Contact Us | Send Feedback