ABSTRACT
The examination of human experience and the world of an imaginary African country called Zamba reveals the existence of issues that are natural and fabricated. Consonant with ecocriticism as an interdisciplinary study of literature and the environment, Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu presents the complex intersections existing between environment and culture. Ecocriticism as environmentalist cultural criticism moves beyond science, geography, and social science into the humanities. In the production of postcolonial literary representation of Mother Nature through eco-criticism and ecofeminism, feminist ecologists have looked at the male tradition of identifying women with nature. Boni’s environmental consciousness as subaltern communication in a minority discourse of postcolonial ecocriticism and ecofeminism reflects environmental concerns of some new sociocritical African environmentalists. The genuine engagement of Matins de couvre-feu in the salvation of nature, indeed, presents an ironically sour note that flies in the face of Boni’s environmentalism.
