Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in ' Swamp Dweller'
1. paper: African
literature
Topic : Conflict of Tradition and
Modernity in Swamp Dweller
Prepared by : Avani Dave
M.A. - Sem – 4
Roll No: 02
Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji
Bhavnagar University
2. Tradition is a belief or
behavior passed down
within group or society
with symbolic meaning or
special significance with
origins in the past.
Makuri, Alu and Igwezu
are representation of
tradition.
Tradition
Tradition is taught by
elders
3. M,
Modernity typically refers to a past
traditional post medieval, historical
period one marked by the money from
feudalism toward capitalism,
industrialism. Secularization,
rationalization, the nation state and
its constituent institutions and forms
of surveillance.
Awuchike and Desala are
representation of modernity.
Modernity
Modernity is a person’s
thought about the world
5.
Tradition
Nonwestern attitude/ culture
village- joint family, caste…
Modernity
What type of change?
Is it all about accepting western ideas, culture and forgetting the
tradition of one’s own
“A village in the swamps. Frogs rain and other noises. The scan
is a hut on stilts, built on one of the scattered semi-firm island in
the swamp. The walls are marsh stakes plaited with hump ropes.
Near the left down stage are the baskets he makes from the
rushes which are strewn in front of him.”
6.
Makuri :-It’s lie all the young man go into the big
town to try their hand at making money only some of
them remember their Falk and send word once in a
while.
Makuri: - The city is a large place .You could live
there all your life and never meet half the people in
it.
Makuri says, “There wasn't a woman anywhere more
faithful than you, Alu; I never had a moment of worry
in the whole of my life”
7.
Igwezu:- I have had my feast of welcome. I found it
on the farm where the beans and the corns had made
Makuri begins to discuss city, “ It ruins them. the city
ruins them. What do they seek except money?”
anlasting potage with the mood.
