Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Chantal Bilodeau's Sila (2015) and Ahmed Yerima's Hard Ground (2006): An Eco-critical Study

Hamza, Rasha Farouk Mahmoud

doi:10.21608/ejlt.2023.184710.1027

Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Chantal Bilodeau's Sila (2015) and Ahmed Yerima's Hard Ground (2006): An Eco-critical Study

Document Type : Research in linguistic and literary studies

Author

Rasha Farouk Mahmoud Hamza

English Language Department, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt.

10.21608/ejlt.2023.184710.1027

Abstract

Abstract
Eco-criticism, or Green Studies, is an approach that investigates the relationship between literature and nature. This movement started by reading the literary works from an ecological perspective. Eco-criticism is a strong reaction against the contemporary environmental crisis. Eco-criticism as a literary movement began in America in 1980s and in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Environmental justice is one of the key concepts in eco-criticism. It calls for the equal rights of the entire living creature in an unpolluted environment. The purpose of this paper is to apply the concept of environmental justice as advocated by the eco- critic Theresa J. May on two plays: Chantal Bilodeau’s Sila (2015) and Ahmed Yerima’s Hard Ground (2006). The study intends to prove that both the people of the North (Arctic) and the people of the South (Africa) are subjected to environmental degradation. Man’s hideous exploitation of the natural resources has tremendous environmental, social, and political consequences on the entire planet.

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