The Writing of Disorder in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments

SILUÉ Lèfara

Numéro Spécial 11 – Décembre 2016 : Actes du Colloque International « Ayi Kwei Armah et le destin de l'Afrique » (2016) Page(s) 1 - 10 ISSN 2076-6130

The image of African society that the Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah dramatizes in his novel Fragments is the one of a society experiencing crisis with itself and with its environment. In this unbalanced imaginary society, the personal universe of every character sways between order and disorder. In other words, order and disorder follow each other to give meaning to Man’s life. T he writing of disorder or disaster is a form of writing whose specificity is to be found in its motley collection and its opening to literary genres. It sets free the writer from the demands of academic English and the universal writing or canons of literature. Thus, it reveals as a writing of self -exposition or self -revelation. Armah uses this technique to castigate Ghanaian political power which grants less importance to art and the role of the artiste in a soc 2

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SILUÉ Lèfara. « The Writing of Disorder in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 11, 2016, p. 1. ISSN 2076-6130.