Exploring ecocriticism in Chimeka Garricks Tomorrow Died Yesterday (2010) and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water (2010)
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Ecocriticism as a literary theory explores the relationship between literary imaginative works andthe biological science with the aim of creating awareness on the devastation of the physical environment and its effects on people’s lives. This thematic concern is the focus in Chimeka Garricks Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. Through a plot and character analysis of these novels, the point is established that when humans degrade the physical environment, they lose their humanity and destroy themselves.
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