Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Realism"

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    • Plotting marriage and love in Elechi Amadi's The concubine: Extended realism in the African novel. 

      Moola, Fiona Fatima (University of the Western Cape, 2019)
      Unlike most other 20th-century African writers, Elechi Amadi foregrounds the theme of romantic love in most of his fiction. Unlike the internationally canonized “village novels” of Chinua Achebe, Amadi’s “village novels” ...

    • A social ontology of “maximal” persons 

      Oyowe, Oritsegbubemi Anthony (Wiley, 2021)
      In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Kwame Gyekye (1992) and Bernard Matolino (2014) denying Menkiti’s twin propositions that persons differ ontologically from human beings and that human attitudes, ...