Thematic analysis of Abubakar Gimbas trail of sacrifice Department: English By: benblezy Project ID: 6176 Rating: (5.0) votes: 1Rate this project12345 Price:₦3000 Get the Complete MaterialAbstractThis study is an examination of how Abubakar Gimba’s novel has, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of the selected novel dealing with a specific society struggling with difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. In these texts, the selected writer has attempted to chart a course of communal awareness and social reconstruction as he shows concern for the socio-political issues prevalent in Nigeria. In essence, the study takes a close look at the nature of protest, its manifestation in literature and the novel, and the way in which the literary imagination transforms it to suit the artistic temper of the author while at the same time retaining its essence as a means of drawing attention to inequity and injustice. A cursory examination of the text selected for this study underscores its reading as protest text. The study concludes that, in the evaluation of social protest and the literary imagination in the Nigerian novel, it is important to analyze the relativity or ideological pursuits of the selected writers. The selected writer in this study appears to be shaped by the prevailing Nigerian socio-political imbalance and its resultant harshness. This in turn is expressed in their individual reactions to these perceived socio-political problems. Consequently, New Historicism is adopted as the theoretical framework....Preview Download Preview +Other English project topics and materials you might be interested in»Stylistic analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s half of a yellow sun»Factors affecting the choice of language in a multilingual society»Corruption and victimization in isidore okpewhotides and anthony abaghas children of oloibiri»Political corruption and symbolism in Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi’s half of a yellow sun and Okey Ndibe’s arrows of rain»A stylistic analysis of selected short stories in jasper Onuekwusi's the triumphant return and Chimamanda Adichie's - A Thing Around Your Neck»The society and the girl child in the bluest eye by Toni Morrison and Kaine Agary's yellow yellow»Struggle and survival in a cowrie of hope by Binwell Sinyangwe and the Cardinals by Bessie Head»The language of the Christian religion: A comparative study of roman catholic church and some selected pentecostal denominations»The effect of the Nigerian Pidgin English on the academic performance of university students in Nigeria - a case study of National Open University of Nigeria students in Benin study centre»The post colonial experiences in warsan shire’s selected poems - ‘what we own’, ‘conversation about home (at the deportation centre)’ and ‘beauty’»The misuse of the English articles in selected Nigerian newspapers»Linguistic stylistic analysis of Toni Morrison Sula»Feminism in African novels - a study of Amma Sarkos beyond the horizon and faceless»An analysis of the language of bank advertisement in selected newspapers in Nigeria»Thematic analysis of Besie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather