Saro-Wiwa, Ken

This project takes the author Ken Saro-Wiwa as its focal point in order to explore the archive of narratives, including his own, that revolve around the Ogoni movement for economic, environmental and political rights in Nigeria. The dissertation argues that Saro-Wiwa's image is …

This dissertation contests the idea that environmental justice discourse emerges solely from the United States. It creates dialogue between texts that represent a traditional American environmental justice frame and those that depict situations of environmental injustice outside…