A literary analysis of <em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</em>: <em>Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope</em> (2009) towards sustainable development through i-Sustainability Plus theory

Hamid Doost Mohammadian; Rasha Asim Gazzaz; Hamid Doost Mohammadian; Rasha Asim Gazzaz

doi:10.3934/geosci.2022034

AIMS Geosciences

2022, Volume 8, Issue 4: 627-644. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2022034

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A literary analysis of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (2009) towards sustainable development through i-Sustainability Plus theory

Hamid Doost Mohammadian ^{1
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Rasha Asim Gazzaz ²

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University of Applied Sciences (FHM), Germany
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Department of European Languages and Literature, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Received: 24 May 2022 Revised: 02 August 2022 Accepted: 11 August 2022 Published: 15 September 2022
Correction:
Name: Change from Hamid Doost Mohammadian to Hamid Mattiello.
Email: Change from Doost@fh-mittelstand.de to Hamid.Mattiello@fh-mittelstand.de.
Telephone Number: Change from 004917620826905 to 0041762311121.

- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,
- literary studies,
- literature and sustainability,
- Malawi,
- William Kamkwamba,
- sustainable development,
- i-Sustainability Plus Theory (2010)
Citation: Hamid Doost Mohammadian, Rasha Asim Gazzaz. A literary analysis of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (2009) towards sustainable development through i-Sustainability Plus theory[J]. AIMS Geosciences, 2022, 8(4): 627-644. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2022034

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