Oil Exploitation and Children’s Squalid Experience in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
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https://doi.org/10.55595/hmgdt564Mots-clés :
Oil Exploitation, Environment, Squalid Experience, Eco-trauma, ChildrenRésumé
: This paper assesses the impact of oil exploitation on children in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were. Using ecocriticism and psychoanalytic criticism, it aims to show that children are the first and most victimized among the people suffering from physical and psychological consequences of environment degradation. As a result, Mbue’s novel is part of eco-literature foregrounding the pertinent issue of the sustainable development. Her literary creativity is undoubtedly a call for considering the grim effects of environmental pollution on children as a crime. She strongly rouses the “green consciousness” of oil corporations and governments so as to participate to the environmental safety, a way to enable children to grow without worry.
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