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Title ALIENATION IN AYI KWEI ARMAH'S THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN AND FRAGMENTS.
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/876
Date 1990
Author(s) Dadson, Fredricka A.
Abstract For some time now, Africa has experienced a process of change from the traditional african social, political and economic patterns and values towards an increasing assimilation of foreign culture and its values. Nevertheless, the African traditional values have remained resilent throughout this process of change and have exerted considerable influence on the more aesthetically and culturally sensitive members of the society. These people have been, and still are determined, in the face of overwhelming international obstacles, to express, through various media, some of the major adverse effects which have emerged as a result of this process of change in relation to the society and its members. This paper attempts to examine Ayi Kwei Armah's concern about a significantly negative derivative of this process of change in post-independence Ghanaian society- the alienation of individuals and groups from family and community with its attendant sense of discontinuity or of disconnection- which he perceives as an experience with tragic possibilities for both the individual and the society.
Publisher KNUST
Identifier 0855-0395
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
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