The pressures of the city : materialism and immorality in cyprian Ekwensi's "Jagua Nana "
| dc.contributor.author | Rirarenga, Edith-Junior | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sous la direction de : Mr. Nganyu Dominic Nformi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-06T20:29:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-06T20:29:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises" | |
| dc.description.abstract | This work examined the negative influences of the city and how the immigrants are trapped into coping with city lifestyle. This was captured through the artistic lens of Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana. We tried to show how the sophisticated and materialistic life in the city impacts on human morals. The work showed the social life in Nigeria in general and in the city of Lagos in particular. It exposed how people who come to the city with the ambitions of improving their way of life become disappointed. They become morally and physically hopeless because of the charged socio economic set up of the city. When those immigrants find it difficult to survive in the city, they choose to adopt the immoral behaviour common to many to cope up with city life. This study was therefore written on the hypothesis that hardship in the city can lure people into immorality. The Psychoanalytic and New Historicism approaches guided our investigations. With these theories, we were able to locate the novel within the postcolonial experiences in most African cities. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ub.edu.bi/handle/123456789/1825 | |
| dc.publisher | UB, FLSH | |
| dc.title | The pressures of the city : materialism and immorality in cyprian Ekwensi's "Jagua Nana " |