TITLE:
The Glocal Conundrum: Anthropocene, Oil and Globalization in Niger Delta Literature
AUTHORS:
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
KEYWORDS:
Glocal, Conundrum, Anthropocene, Niger Delta Literature, Oil, Environment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.1,
January
10,
2022
ABSTRACT: This paper examines writers from the Niger Delta’s responses to the problems caused by humans’ activities to the region’s
natural environment. It identifies some underhand efforts of local individuals
and foreign multinationals respectively in extracting its natural resources
while also locating interconnections in the actions of both that have glocal
implications and continue to pose great danger to environmental sustainability.
For textual illustrations, the paper draws on several literary reconfigurations
of this conundrum even as it applauds the different writers’ activism and
advocacy for environmental resuscitation.