The Significance of Employing Socialist Realism in Selected Contemporary Anglophone Kenyan Novels

Abstract

Yonas Adamu Chernet

However, Socialist Realism is an outdated literary, many Kenyan authors apply its features in their literary work. The features help the authors to show many issues which rose in their society. As a result, this paper focused on the Significance of Employing Socialist Realism in the Contemporary Anglophone Kenyan novels. The selected novels were Dust, Was Nyakeeru My Father? and A Journey Within. All are published after 2000 as a result it helped the researcher to show the significance of Socialist Realism in current Kenya. The researcher used qualitative research methodology to analyze the selected novels. And Critical reading of the selected novels helped the researcher to find useful extracts from the novels. Finally, the researcher concluded by mentioning five major significances of employing Socialist Realism in the selected novels.

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