"Work Is War": The Biafran War and Neoliberalism in Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy
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DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.48.4.02
Abstract: ABSTRACT:Nigerian-born Ken Saro-Wiwa was a writer, environmental activist, and representative of the minority Ogoni people. much literary criticism has focused on his novel Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985) because it highlights the traumas… read more here.
Keywords: biafran war; sozaboy; saro wiwa; war ... See more keywords
An Environmental Unconscious?: Nigerian Oil Politics, Autonomous Partial Objects, and Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy
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DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.48.4.05
Abstract: ABSTRACT:My article starts by disproving the established critical consensus that Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy features a child soldier. Instead, I argue, we see a tactical psychopathy at work, in which the adult soldier's flattened moral choices… read more here.
Keywords: ken saro; autonomous partial; saro wiwa; wiwa sozaboy ... See more keywords