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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 23–46PDF of Climate Catastrophe and Postcolonial Ecologies in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

   Climate Catastrophe and Postcolonial Ecologies in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

   Pascal Iheanacho OHANMA and Onwuamaeze S. ALI

   Caribbean Ecologies literary analysis framework, the article investigates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean writers articulate environmental degradation, resource extraction, and climatic vulnerability alongside colonial historical trajectories. The primary text corpus comprises

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 57–79PDF of Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi, Henrietta Okafor and Chidimma Irene Odoh

   Nation through Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory. It addresses the interconnected effects of poverty, environmental degradation, social injustice, war, child marginalisation and trauma in the two novels. Drawing on Caruth … study employs close textual and comparative analysis. It argues that Faceless portrays urban poverty, environmental degradation, gender inequality and institutional neglect as conditions that expose Fofo and Baby

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 269–289PDF of Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor

   distance communities from ancestral ecological knowledge. The findings show that colonial discourse normalizes environmental degradation, cultural alienation and neo-colonial dependency. However, the novels also present indigenous languages, oral traditions