Youth Edginess as an Indignant Outcry for Environmental Justice: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Analysis of Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Wer

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  • Alphonse Dorien MAKOSSO Université Marien Ngouabi, Congo-Brazzaville Auteur·e

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https://doi.org/10.55595/n07zyg24

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Analyse écocritique, justice environnementale, enlèvement, exploitation pétrolière, vandalisme, indignation des jeunes.

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Cette étude porte sur le sort des jeunes dans Tomorrow Died Yesterday de Chimeka Garricks et How Beautiful We Wered’Imbolo Mbue. S’inspirant essentiellement de la théorie écocritique postcoloniale de Huggan et Tiffin, elle vise à montrer comment les jeunes, dans les romans considérés, manifestent leur indignation et luttent pour la justice et la restaurationenvironnementales. Une lecture attentive de ces deux récits révèle que la pollution pétrolière, les dommages environnementaux, ainsi que le chaos engendré par la mauvaise gestion écologique, ont manifestement suscité le ressentiment des jeunes qui, montrant des signes d’anxiété, n’hésitent plus de recourir à des actes de vandalisme pour changer le statuquo. En guise d’évaluation finale, cet article suggère que les entreprises néocoloniales occidentales, avec la complicité des gouvernements, constituent les véritables coupables des dommages écologiques en Afrique, ce qui motive des écrivains africains comme Chimeka Garricks et Imbolo Mbue à s’impliquer dans la dénonciation de ces pratiques éhontées et perfides et à recourir à l’éco-activisme dans leur fresque littéraire pour faire un pas vers le développement durable.

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2025-03-01

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Youth Edginess as an Indignant Outcry for Environmental Justice: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Analysis of Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Wer. (2025). Cahiers Africains De Rhétorique, 3(2), 178-198. https://doi.org/10.55595/n07zyg24

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