The Poetics of Space in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)
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Date
2014
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This research work compares two representative examples of modern African and
American Literatures which are Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ayi Kwei
Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968). My major interest is to analyze
and compare the way the two authors represent space in their novels. One of the main
arguments is that the two novels constitute a site for the interplay of space and place. I take
my theoretical bearings in this comparative study from Leonard Lutwack’s The Role of
Place in Literature. In the first chapter of my analysis, I contend that The Great Gatsby
and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born preoccupied with space in relation to the theme
of fragmentation and disillusionment. In the second chapter, I develop further the analysis
to illustrate how the poetics of space in the two novels participates in their main plot. I
have tried to demonstrate that space in the two novels is poetic since it is used on purpose
and structured in a manner that could follow the plot of the novel.
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