Confronting Inequity in Nigerian Social Milieu： Apprehending Class Stratification in Festus Iyayi＇s Violence  

作　　者：Niyi Akingbe Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi 

机构地区：[1]Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria [2]Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Nigeria

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2013年第3期144-157,共14页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper is preoccupied with the delineation of the dialectic of poverty and wealth in Festus Iyayi＇s Violence. The unbridled struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat in the novel constitutes the onus of the dialectical materialism which underlies an axiomatic focus of societal superstructure. An application of Kenneth Boulding＇s theory of protest to the Nigerian social milieu, poignantly reveals that there is a potent foregrounding of the class stratification between the rich and the poor. The paper will further examine how this dichotomy between the highly placed and the down trodden in the novel has graphically accentuated the poverty index in contemporary Nigeria.

关 键 词：confronting inequity class stratification VIOLENCE bourgeois PROLETARIAT social milieu Nigeria Festus Iyayi 

分 类 号：TQ534.4[化学工程—煤化学工程] N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]