ABSTRACT
This chapter examines The Wives’ Revolt by the prolific Nigerian poet and playwright John Pepper Clark to challenge the “racial blindness of the Anthropocene” and to make explicit the relations between the Anthropocene, colonialism, and anti-blackness. While Clark’s writing has received attention within Nigerian literature and African literary studies, his significant contributions to the development of postcolonial theater deserves broader recognition. The embodied politics of race, coloniality, gender, and sexuality in The Wives’ Revolt draw attention to the making of Anthropocene as a material fact, providing an occasion to consider the conditions of possibility for liberation.
