Naturaleza y una revolución social en "Alápatà  Àpáta" de Wole Soyinka

Autores/as

  • John Olorunshola Kehinde Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai
  • Sule E. Egya Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2025.16.2.5523

Palabras clave:

Wole Soyinka, Alápatà Àpáta, naturaleza, agencia, ecocrítica africana, revolución social

Resumen

Este ensayo trata la agencia de los no-humanos y su uso para conseguir una revolución social en la obra teatral  Alápatà  Àpáta de Wole Soyinka. En la estética drámatica de Soyinka se socava el antropocentrismo para reflejar un mundo natural africano en el que la naturaleza y la cultura no son una dicotomía, sino que están entrelazadas. Usando ideas del sistema de conocimiento de los indígenas africanos (en particular de la nació étnica yoruba) y de la ecocrítica material, sostenemos que la obra presenta a los seres no humanos como los protagonistas de la revolución frente a la opresión política. El cambio de lo humano a lo no-humano, en el contexto de una revolución social, sugiere que tales lecturas ecocéntricas pueden ofrecernos una dimensión alternativa de la literatura africana que destaca los roles de la naturaleza africana en el progreso social—roles que hasta la fecha han sido marginalizados en las lecturas que han privilegiado a los humanos sobre a los no-humanos. Este estudio extenderá el foco de los estudios literarios africanos, pasando de la atención hacia lo humano a debatir las complejidades de las relaciones entre humanos y no-humanos.

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Biografía del autor/a

John Olorunshola Kehinde, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai

John Olorunshola Kehinde is a Nigerian scholar and researcher who earned a PhD in Literature-in-English in 2023. His work focuses on environmental literature and decolonial ecocriticism. His recent publications in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Postcolonial Studies, and Human Ecology Review critique human tendencies toward environmental abuse, species exclusion, and human exceptionalism. Dr. Kehinde has also presented his research at notable international seminars and colloquia, including the Balzan Colloquium on “Literature and Environmental Crisis” at Harvard University, and the workshop on “Decolonial Ecology: Literary and Cultural Representations in the Global South” at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, Essen, Germany.

Sule E. Egya, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University

Sule Emmanuel Egya is professor of African Literature and Environmental Humanities at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria. His research interests include literature and environment, African migration writing, knowledge production in Africa, and decolonial discourse. He is the author of many articles that have appeared in journals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. His monographs include Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English (2014); Niyi Osundare: A Literary Biography (2017); Power and Resistance: Literature, Regime, and the National Imaginary (2019); and Nature, Environment and Activism in Nigerian Literature (2020). He has co-edited Studies in Scientific and Cultural Ecology (2021), and Orality, Textuality, Society: New Perspectives on Nigerian Literature and Culture (2023). He also writes fiction and poetry under the pen-name E. E. Sule. He is the author of the novels Sterile Sky (winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region, 2013), and Makwala (ANA Prose Prize, 2019); and the poetry collection What the Sea Told Me (winner of the ANA Gabriel Okara Prize, 2009).

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Publicado

2025-10-30

Número

Vol. 16 Núm. 2 (2025): Humanidades vegetales en el Amazonas

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Artículos: Sección general

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