This essay, therefore, proposes a panoramic stylo-literary analysis on the language choice of environment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.Īccording to the Wikipedia Encyclopedic Online Dictionary, language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so and a language is any specific example of such a system. The sensibility of language intelligibility and acceptability-the mutual relativity and intensifying factor that mirrors the socio-cultural comprehensibility in communication-is hung in the double-quilted roof of Stylistics and literature, otherwise known as stylo-literary efficacy. A strong, tight, efficient novel-urgent and relevant.Language And Environment In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born The bitter knowledge of his teacher (symbolically, truthfully, ""the naked man""), and his own awareness of a constricting future lead to the tired hope that the Beautyful Ones will come hereafter. But the regime is overthrown, and the man helps Koomson escape. Yet he will not accept bribes, be overpowered by a former friend, now a Westernized official-Koomson, of the glittering wife, the appliance-filled apartment.
Just as oppressive, however, are the new rulers of the country-""black (men) trying at all points to be the dark ghost of Europeans,"" men whose flight away from blackness into whiteness can only mean that their power comes from ""white masters."" The anonymous narrator, a railroad clerk, sadly contemplates the materialistic yearnings of his wife and his termagant mother-in-law. The exploitative, crushing rule of the white colonists is ever a fresh memory-the house on the hill from which little African boys were routed by dogs and weapons.
This young Ghanian author has caught the vanishing ends of two worlds in a bitter, acerbic novel of one man's spiritual trials in a new West African nation. In the groping stretch between colonialism and a strong national identity one of the natural attitudes is a sour malaise.
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