THE REPRESENTATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN SELECTED AFRICAN FICTION

📄 Project Abstract

The concept of disability as an entity worthy of study in African literature is hardly ever considered, yet it an engaging issue. Disability means different things to different people at different times and that is what the research work sought. The four works under study: Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars' Strike, Elechi Amadi's The Concubine, Cyprian Ekwensi's The Drummerboy, and Gabriel Okara's The Voice looked at the subject of disability and depicted persons with disabilities in these three dimensions. They achieved this through the use of some key literary devices that served as a medium to efficiently carry out the assignment of depicting persons with disabilities and their experiences. The research work looked at the following as it discussed the subject of disability in these four texts: how disability is viewed in the selected works; the imagery that is recurrent in these works; how disability is connected to traditional, moral and ethical norms and what disability means for the...