Social protest and the literary imagination in Nigerian novels - Akingbe, Niyi
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This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, namely Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987); Kole Omotoso's Just Before Dawn (1988); Buchi Emecheta's…mehr

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This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, namely Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987); Kole Omotoso's Just Before Dawn (1988); Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (1982); Festus Iyayi's Violence (1979); Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain (2000) and Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel (2002). The choice of these texts is informed by the fact that their thematic preoccupations and structural concerns are broadly similar. In these texts, the selected writers have attempted to chart a course of communal awareness and social reconstruction as they show concern for the socio-political issues prevalent in Nigeria. In essence, the study takes a close look at the nature of protest, its manifestation in literature and the novel.
Autorenporträt
Dr Niyi Akingbe,a Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Joseph Ayo Babalola University,Ikeji-Arakeji,Osun State,Nigeria.An engaging literary critic,he was educated at the Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife,where he received a bachelor's degree in English Studies,and University of Lagos, where he received both MA in Literature and Ph.D in English.