This document provides biographical information about the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and analyzes his play The Swamp Dweller. It notes that Achebe was born in 1934, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and denounced the concept of Negritude. The document then summarizes the plot of The Swamp Dweller and analyzes the themes of tradition versus modernity, and characters representing old versus new ways of living, that are explored in the play.

1. Batch: 2014-16
Name: Vanita Tadha
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Qualification: MA Part–2 [Sem-4]
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Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsihji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India.
Old and new ways of living life in Africa
– Swamp Dweller
Course No.: 14 [The African Literature]
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2.  Born: 1934
 Awarded the Noble prize in literature.
 He was one of the few African writers to
denounce the slogan of Negritude as a tool
of autocracy .
 The Swamp Dweller published in 1958
 Plays:
 1. The Invention
 2. The Lion and the Jewel
 3. A Dance in the Forest
 poems:
 The Immigrant
 My Next Door Neighbor 2

3. OLD NEW
 Tradition
 Cultural, social,
conventional
 Nonwestern attitude
 Join family
 Village struggles to
connect myth and
actuality
 Modernity
 Encompasses various
elements so called South
African tradition or any
tradition
 A change in society
 It is all about accepting
western ideas, culture and
forgetting tradition of
one’s own
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4. “A village in the swamps. Frogs rain and other
noises. The scan is a hut on stilts, built on one of
the scattered semifirm island in the swamp. The
walls are marsh stakes plaited with hump ropes.
Near the left down stage are the baskets he
makes from the rushes which are strewn in front
of him.”(1 pg of TSD)
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5. “It’s lie all the young
man go into the big
town to try their hand
at making money only
some of them
remember their Falk
and send word.”
“The city is a large
place. You could
live there all your
life and never meet
half the people in
it.”
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6. A place
for hard
hearted
people.
A place
for simple
people.
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7. • Left home, Living in town
• callous, self centered,
egoistic, nonchalant,
unmindful, undutiful
disobedient towards parents
Awuchike
• Living in village
• He is obedient, dutiful
towards his parents.Igwezu
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8. Alu
Faithful wife
Reject offer of town
life
Love the Swamp
tradition
Simple and honest
Desala
Unfaithful wife
Demanding
For town life
Careless attracted
to Urban life
Leaves her
husband for money
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9. The
Beggar
Believe in
work and
earn
Earning by
laboring
The
Priest
Taking
things from
village
Earning by
false bait and
deception
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10. http://www.slideshare.net/maitrimunjpara/r
ealism-in-the-swamp-dwellers
Wikipedia contributors.
"Swamp." Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia, 17 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Mar.
2016.
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