Authors : Deshmukh Karuna, Abhijeet Dawle
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.16928247
Volume : 4
Issue : 4
Year : 2016
Page No : 174-188
In this paper an attempt has been made to present the post- colonial society in Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Bor n. The political changes and presentation of contemporary society in the five major novels of Ayi Kwei Armah - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest?, Two Thousand Seasons and The Healers constitute a chronological survey of society from colonialism to post colonialism. It is true that the chief characteristic of the postcolonial literatures is to go up against the colonizer’s supremacy. Each work of art in postcolonial literatures in some way or the other is concerned with its national culture. The important features of post colonial literature across the world are the issues like history and myth, language and landscape and other subject like education, population, poverty, employment, corruption and peace etc. The postcolonial writers used English language efficiently in their writing. Language is a result of culture and language is not just a medium for message but a transporter of culture also. Culture takes account of history, myth, rituals, morals and aesthetic values and it passed on generation to the other through language. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born presents wrong means adopted by the corrupt politicians to remain in power. It shows the true picture of democracy which is corrupted at various levels by native people who are still under the influence of foreign culture after independence in the third world countries.