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Prepared By Munjpara Maitri RCourse MA ndash IISemester IVRoll no 17PG Roll no PG13101023Paper The African LiteratureTopic Realism in ldquoThe Swamp DwellersrdquoSubmitted to Department of English
Maharaja KrishnakumarsinhjiBhavnagar University
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NigerianAuthor
Playwright Poet
Nobel Prize in
Literature (1986)
First African
awarded from New Literature
The Swamp Dwellers
Struggle between old amp new way of
life
Conflict between tradition amp modernity
Absurdity of human existence
Individual worldHopelessness helplessness
bull Tradition
bull Cultural social conventional
bull Nonwestern attitude
bull Joint Family
bull Village struggles to connect myth and actuality
Modernitybull Encompasses various
elements of the so-called South African tradition or any tradition
bull A change in society
bull Is it all about accepting western ideas culture and forgetting the tradition of onersquos own
Realism in Two Ways
Tradition
Igwezu Awuchike
bull Living in village
bull Obedient dutiful son
bull Look after his parentsIgwezu
bull left home living in town
bull Self centred undutiful son
bull For their parents he was died
Awuchike
Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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NigerianAuthor
Playwright Poet
Nobel Prize in
Literature (1986)
First African
awarded from New Literature
The Swamp Dwellers
Struggle between old amp new way of
life
Conflict between tradition amp modernity
Absurdity of human existence
Individual worldHopelessness helplessness
bull Tradition
bull Cultural social conventional
bull Nonwestern attitude
bull Joint Family
bull Village struggles to connect myth and actuality
Modernitybull Encompasses various
elements of the so-called South African tradition or any tradition
bull A change in society
bull Is it all about accepting western ideas culture and forgetting the tradition of onersquos own
Realism in Two Ways
Tradition
Igwezu Awuchike
bull Living in village
bull Obedient dutiful son
bull Look after his parentsIgwezu
bull left home living in town
bull Self centred undutiful son
bull For their parents he was died
Awuchike
Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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The Swamp Dwellers
Struggle between old amp new way of
life
Conflict between tradition amp modernity
Absurdity of human existence
Individual worldHopelessness helplessness
bull Tradition
bull Cultural social conventional
bull Nonwestern attitude
bull Joint Family
bull Village struggles to connect myth and actuality
Modernitybull Encompasses various
elements of the so-called South African tradition or any tradition
bull A change in society
bull Is it all about accepting western ideas culture and forgetting the tradition of onersquos own
Realism in Two Ways
Tradition
Igwezu Awuchike
bull Living in village
bull Obedient dutiful son
bull Look after his parentsIgwezu
bull left home living in town
bull Self centred undutiful son
bull For their parents he was died
Awuchike
Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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bull Tradition
bull Cultural social conventional
bull Nonwestern attitude
bull Joint Family
bull Village struggles to connect myth and actuality
Modernitybull Encompasses various
elements of the so-called South African tradition or any tradition
bull A change in society
bull Is it all about accepting western ideas culture and forgetting the tradition of onersquos own
Realism in Two Ways
Tradition
Igwezu Awuchike
bull Living in village
bull Obedient dutiful son
bull Look after his parentsIgwezu
bull left home living in town
bull Self centred undutiful son
bull For their parents he was died
Awuchike
Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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Igwezu Awuchike
bull Living in village
bull Obedient dutiful son
bull Look after his parentsIgwezu
bull left home living in town
bull Self centred undutiful son
bull For their parents he was died
Awuchike
Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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Alu
Faithful wife
Rejected offer of town
life
Love the swamp
tradition
Simple and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
Careless attracted to
urban life
Leaves his husband for
money
Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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Town Nation
Place for simple minded people Place for Hard
Hearted People
Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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Bibliography
httpiosrjournalsorgiosr-jhsspapersVol19-issue4Version-1A019410104pdf
httpenwikipediaorgwikiWole_Soyinka
httpliteraclecomwole-soyinkas-art-of-characterization-in-the-play-the-swamp-dwellers
httpssitesgooglecomsitetheswampdwellerssummary
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=PAB7zIIkd1s
Video
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