Realism in The Swamp Dwellers

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

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