Volume I Special Issue I September 2021

Name of Author : S Geetha Nirmal

Title of the paper : Dissociation and Desolation of Insulated Self: A Study of Ayi Kwei Armah’s Why are We so Blest?

Abstract: Ayi Kwei Armah’s Why are We so Blest? is a fascinating illustration of Post-Independence Ghana. Intellectualism and western ideologies occupied the psyche of the natives. Thus African intellectuals are radically, intolerably and inescapably alienated from the people. United States is considered to be the world of the blest but appears to be a destructive world. Armah exposes the self-insulated natives realising the fact and trying to reconcile with their own people. This made them to suffer a lot to attain their place in their own nation. This paper tempts to read the mind of the characters who possess the modified self and suffer because of the influence of intellectualism and western ideologies which made them to be alienated.

Keywords : Dissociation, Desolation, Intellectualism, Alienation, Reconciliation

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Page Number : 174-177