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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 102–115PDF of The Poetics of Ecobordering: Ecofeminism and Border Dynamics in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

   The Poetics of Ecobordering: Ecofeminism and Border Dynamics in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

   Mary J. N. Okolie and Anya Ude Egwu

   ecological toll and studies of its gendered violence have so far treated separately. Extending “ecobordering,” a term developed for petrofiction and resource extraction, to state warfare, and reading it alongside … state’s recruitment of women limit that agency. The paper contributes by showing that ecobordering, developed to describe environmental exploitation in peacetime, also names how war turns a national boundary