Significaton of Dialectal Materialism in the Stylistic Exigencies in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s Devil on the Cross

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Federal university oye- ekiti Term paper NAME: CHIFE PAUL IKECHUKWU MATRIC NO.: ENG/11/0070 COURSE: AFRICAN NOVEL COURSE CODE: ELS 302 LECTURER IN CHARGE: DR NIYI AKINGBE Question: EXAMINE WITH ILLUSTRATION THE SIGNIFICATON OF DIALECTAL MATERIALISM IN THE STYLISTIC EXIGENCIES IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S DEVIL ON THE CROSS TO BORDER ON THE SUMMATION OF THE THREE PERIODS: PRE- COLONIAL, COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PERIOD; HOW HAS CORRUPTION INSTILLED IN POST- COLONIAL KENYA DATE: 7TH AUG., 2014 INTRODUCTION Devil on The cross is one of Ngugi’s masterpieces on the post-colonial Kenyan nationhood. The novel tells a story of a young Kenyan girl, Jacinta Wariinga. She is the decrepit heroine of the novel who rose from one woeful incident upon another until her life take a sudden hoist from plunder to a metamorphosis of poise, self-dignity and aplomb. Wariinga a young girl from Ilmorog tells her awful story in the character of ‘Kareendi’ was deprived of her studies by being impregnated by her aristocrat lover and then left in the lurch. In order to make ends meet and pursue her studies and also to prepare a future she accepted to learn type writing and shorthand. And then she emigrated to the capital, Nairobi in search of a job. Due to her grace and charm on men she was accosted by her boss Kihara for a sexual intercourse which she bluntly refused. Thereafter she was dismissed and to add salt upon injury she was jilted on the same day by her lover John Kinwama, a young university student, instead of fortifying her he rather pour insults on her accusing her of harlotry. As if that not enough, Consequent to her being out of job, she was ejected by her landlord after having increased the rent and this compounded her woe. She then resort to put an end to her melancholic life by ceding to commit suicide as way out of her miseries, but was stopped by an unknown Samaritan. On

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