Social Commitment in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid and Faceless

• Authors: Tayol Raphael Terhemba

Abstracts

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When a literary work is conceived, it demonstrates the fact that a writer is sensitive to the world around him or her and thus, his or her work bear the responsibility of creating an impact positively on that society. This paper arises from this fact and exemplifies how Amma Darko is socially committed to shaping the moral conscience of contemporary African society using her novels – The Housemaid and Faceless. Using social theory as a theoretical bearing, the paper analyses the novels and discovers that Amma uses especially her characters and settings as forces to create a social transformation in contemporary African society.

Keywords

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social theory; novel; cultural; social change; impact of literature

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej. Language and Society Research Committee
• Journal: Language, Discourse & Society
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 153-162
• Document type: Original Article

Dates

published

2019-06-30

Contributors

author

Tayol Raphael Terhemba

• Benue State University, Makurdi

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