NDLI: Social Power Dynamism Within the Familial Spaces of Meja Mwangi's The Last Plague and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

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Social Power Dynamism Within the Familial Spaces of Meja Mwangi's The Last Plague and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Nderitu, M. J.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This study establishes the dynamics of social power among literary characters in the familial spaces of the fictional societies depicted by Meja Mwangi in his novel, The Last Plague (E.A.E.P. 2000) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Purple Hibiscus (Fourth Estate, 2004).The study is justified by the fact that a study on the interchanges of social power among characters in the two texts has not been done. The study is descriptive and , ' analytical and employs the qual itative research design, which involves close reading of the two novels as well as other related material. The primary data collected has been subjectively analyzed to determine how and why social power possession and exercise changes from one character to another within family set ups. More data has also been collected through library reading on critical works on the two texts as well as scholarly commentary on social power and its dynamism in family relationships. The analysis on how and why different characters acquire and exercise social power over one another constitutes data that has been analyzed in a descriptive manner. It is hoped that the findings of this research will help the literary fraternity to understand how and why characters' social power possession keeps changing in the two novels. This research is of use to scholars of literature who have a slant towards East and West African novels. It is also of assistance to lay people who are interested in reading the two novels. A recommendation for further studies on the hiatus that has been left by this study has been
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Language	English
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