Environmental concerns in Andrea James' Yanagai! Yanagai! and Drew Taylor's the Berlin Blues: an eco-critical perspective

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Within the initiative taken by Cheryll Glotfelty, the new discipline and theory known as ecocriticism came into existence.

ecocriticism explores the relationship of literature with the natural world and further examines the role the environment and the natural surroundings play in the minds of writers during the creative process.

the present paper aims to examine two plays from the Australian and Canadian works of literature; the first play is Yanagai! Yanagai! (2003) by Andrea James, while the other is the berlin blues (2008) by drew Taylor.

in these two plays, James and Taylor reveal colonization’s effects and assert that Eurocentric ideology is based upon making the occupied lands subordinate to the colonizer’s powerful hegemony.

the prevailing conception is that the colonization of aboriginal Australia was about controlling their land, the real treasure.

aboriginal Australian and Canadian playwrights have portrayed the environmental degradation of their lands at the hands of white settlers.

in this paper, the interest in revealing environmental degradation has been dramatized by playwrights, whose plays incisively reveal the extreme danger of such an ecological crisis in the past, present and future.