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Niyi Akingbe, Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2013.03.002
Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Nigeria
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.
confronting inequity, class stratification, violence, bourgeois, proletariat, social milieu, Nigeria, Festus Iyayi
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