The discourse surrounding the environment is an important one because mankind has a symbiotic relationship with nature. Preservation of the indigenous environment is therefore a key aspect in ensuring quality of life. Human beings thus have a duty to protect the ecosystem in order to make the universe a safe haven for man, flora and fauna. While this is so, a lot of human effort is required to mitigate environmental deterioration and ensure optimal ecosystem through conservation of the indigenous environment. At the heart of Ole Kulet’s The Elephant Dance is the question of ecological sobriety. This paper is therefore a reading of Ole Kulet’s indigenous art and eco-literary thoughts depicted in the novel. The paper interrogates the impediments of a suitable ecology as represented in the novel and examines the ways in which Kulet resolves the issues. The analysis of the text is guided by eco-criticism theory which illuminates the nexus between literature and ecology. Kulet’s literary engagement with the environment in this novel contributes to the debate around nature conservancy and the need to protect the indigenous environment. This research concludes that Kulet captures precisely the environmental crisis in The Elephant Dance and offers hope of a better ecosystem. The paper will be a modest contribution to extant studies on ecology.
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Ahmed Osman Warfa, Lester Mwetu. (2022). Ecological Imagination in Henry Ole Kulet’s the Elephant Dance. International Journal of Literature and Arts, 10(4), 252-256. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.18
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Ahmed Osman Warfa; Lester Mwetu. Ecological Imagination in Henry Ole Kulet’s the Elephant Dance. Int. J. Lit. Arts 2022, 10(4), 252-256. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.18
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