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This paper examines the relationship between ecology and literature, focusing on Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow. The novel explores the socio-cultural effects of oil exploration and exploitation on the ecology. It examines the effects of coastal communities in contact with the sea in the Niger-Delta. Some of these include what Kaine Agary calls 'Born troway', 'African profits', 'Father-unknown', 'Ashawo pickin'. Zilayefa the heroine of the novel is a product of one of such contacts. The bulk of some of these contacts makes up the tendency toward criminality in the Niger-Delta region in addition to poor leadership at all levels of governance. The paper deals with the political ecology of Nigeria and examines the place of women within that ecology. It is our position and the view of this paper that environmental pollution translates to moral pollution. Women in this novel have been sexually polluted. The body of the woman symbolizes nature which man has polluted. All these issues are the basic concerns, which this paper interrogates.

Includes abstract. ; In 1981 Sizwe Magona a 17-year old South African goes into exile in Europe. He is assigned to work with Graves Kumalo, prominent member of the ANC and responsible for investigating the apartheid government's nuclear weapons' programme. At that time, Kumalo meets Slimkop de Vriess, nuclear scientist in charge of South Africa's (secret) uranium enrichment plant. This provides the back story for Yellow Cake, a political eco-thriller set in contemporary South Africa. Written in a terse lean style with interrupted plot lines and multiple points of view, it uses the genre to explore complex relationships and themes of a country in transition. Global and local power dynamics play out in the choices that the characters make.

Embedded in culture historical research on color, the present study contributes to the hypothesis that a given color only obtains its cultural or symbolical meanings in association with another color. By analyzing Hungarian examples of the color yellow, I will demonstrate that a color may have associations of a different character in relation to another color: this association may rely on symbolism alone, as seen in the relationship between yellow and black in connection with the concept of impurity tied to bile, excrement and dirty soil. Connections between colors may also be based on sensory-psychological/cognitive similarities, such as those drawn between yellow and green in earlier times across Europe, an association that can be traced in some archaic elements of Hungarian culture, such as in the ideas connected to jaundice. In addition to this argument, I also propose that, out of excreta, compared to feces light yellow urine is closer to the category of white associated with purity (through the analogy of white wine) than to yellow which (also) symbolizes impurity.