The Ecological Scuffle in Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday
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The objectives of environmental humanities include a careful attempt to formulate a new framework through which to read, analyse, interpret and apprehend issues of ecological degradation, environmental activism, and ecological justice system. By adopting the ecocritical theory, the study seeks to closely examine ecological struggles in parts of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, the environmentalism of the poor and their efforts at reclaiming their environment. Through Chimeka Garricks’ fiction, Tomorrow Died Yesterday, the paper avers that a people’s freedom and restoration from the forces that contend and dispossess them, will begin with their choice of language. When confrontation is activated using the right words and expressions, the possibility of positive change is in view. The paper concluded that language is not only a tool, but also a place; and subscribes to revolutionary discourse in getting back what was stolen or lost.
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