LITERATURE AND ECONOMIC DETERMINISM

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LITERATURE AND ECONOMIC DETERMINISM

Abstract:

Marxism which later developed into communism has since the Bolshevic revolution of 1917 become a structure of governance in the defunct USSR. This system later spread to a number of countries in Eastern Europe, South America and China. With its collapse in the founding state in 1991, the general assumption has been that it would automatically disappear everywhere, but this did not happen. Indeed, scholarship and analysis from the Marxist perspective have continued to flourish. In fact, Marxist ideology- cum communist has been applied to the study of literature in several societies. The Marxist theory selected for this research is that of economic determinism; this theory feels that the society is constituted by a base (the material means of production, distribution, and exchange) and a superstructure, which is the cultural world of ideas, art, religion, literature, law and so on. The essential Marxist view is that the latter things are not innocent but are determined or shaped by the nature of the economic base. This research aims at exploring this Marxist theory and its applicability on a corpus of Hausa plays. In its attempt to present the economic outlook of the Hausa society, the work examines the economic system of the society; this is the thesis. The challenge on the thesis is the antithesis and the resultant effect of that challenge is synthesis. As literature is not only aimed at delighting, the research is able to perhaps for first time, present through a pragmatic stance, the analysis of economic determinism embodied in the select Hausa plays.

LITERATURE AND ECONOMIC DETERMINISM

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