"Somos el Delta": Naturaleza y acción en Oil on Water de Helon Habila

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2021.12.1.3556

Palabras clave:

Delta del Níger, petróleo, ecocrítica, contaminación, Helon Habila, naturaleza, acción

Resumen

      A primera vista, en la novela de Helon Habila Oil on Water parece haber tan solo tres agentes humanos en la lucha del Delta del Níger: los soldados enviados por el gobierno federal que mantienen el negocio del petróleo en activo; las fuerzas rebeldes armadas que luchan para proteger el medio ambiente y para tener voz en la distribución de petrodólares; y finalmente los habitantes de las aldeas vecinas que se encuentran atrapados en el medio. El presente artículo sostiene que el cuarto actor en este ecodrama es el paisaje, víctima de un trato brutal. Lejos de asumir un papel pasivo, la Naturaleza en Oil on Water contraataca a través de la prosa de Habila. A la tierra devastada se le otorga una voz poderosa para exigir medidas urgentes de acción que pongan fin a nuevos daños causados por la extracción salvaje de petróleo.

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Biografía del autor/a

Felicity Hand, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Felicity Hand is senior lecturer in the English Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.  She teaches postcolonial literature and history and culture of the British Isles and the United States. She has published articles on various Indian Ocean writers including M.G.Vassanji and Abdulrazak Gurnah and a full-length study of the Mauritian author Lindsey Collen. She is the head of the research group Ratnakara  <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/ratnakara>  which explores the literatures and cultures of the South West Indian Ocean.   At present she is head of a research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness entitled the aesthetics of remembering, which focuses on life writing 

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Publicado

2021-02-08

Número

Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2021): Ecologismo en el aula de inglés como lengua extranjera

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