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Cultural Readings Represented in Novels: A Special Investigation Based on the Novel “A Man of the People” Written by Chinua Achebe.
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Madhusanka, N.M.A.N.
The language is also a greater part of the culture when compared to other cultural matters such as foods, clothing & feelings which are being used with the origin of mankind. The things related to different society levels are also distributed by the culture. The culture is a relative factor which controls the man to some extent. The art related to different societies is also revealed by the culture. Drama, dancing, music, art, sculpture as well as literature are subjective parts of the culture. Chinua Achebe was a great novelist in Nigerian literature. Not only in Nigerian literature, a great novelist in African literature also. He was a novelist, short story writer as well as a poet. The corruption & the collusion of politicians were clearly shown in the novel “A man of the people.” The great service done by Chinua Achebe to the Nigerian literation has made a new ideology among people. The main objective of this investigation is to identify the cultural matters reflects in the novel “A man of the people” written by Chinua Achebe which is related to the African culture. Content analysis & three interviews were used as the methodology. This novel is a political satire which pictured both political culture and the African culture in the society. The hollow image of politicians & the satire related to those characters were shown together in this novel. It is clearly identified that the matters such as religion, culture, women & politics can be reflects through literature. Therefore, it is a responsibility of novelists to reform the reality of an existing society through their novels.
Trend in Reading Novels by the Students of Art Faculty: With Special Referee to Kelaniya, Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura Universities
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madhusanka, N.M.A.N.; Atthanayaka, M.
Printed Media has been a very closer medium to everyday personal life of people. Special feature of novel is the exposure of personal life at human kind to the society and lay person considering the view it in very valuable how far the university students are very closer to reading novels. The Objective of this study is to investigate the factors affected in minimizing the time spend for reading, type of novel reading and the number of novel rending amang University Students. What and how the trend of reading novels by the university student was the research problem of this study. The hypothesis constructed for this purpose is that is the university students of Arts faculty show a decline in reading novels. The study limited three universities in Sri Lanka namely Kelaniya" Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura. Population was the Art faculty students and sample was 100 students based on random sampling technology. Primary data collected using a Questionnaire and a n interview. Through this study, it collected that students in Art faculty showed a decline in reading novels. The factors for this were non closer at novels for personal life of the students, confinement of students to word study only owing to semester system, economic hardships, hectic life and restlessness, non-issue at productive and quality novels and the gradual deviation from reading novels owning to students preferences for using new media. It revealed that steps like literary discussion, criticism and discourses, literary workshops, improvement of library usage, change of attitude in reading are to be taken to make more close to reading novels by Art students.
සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය කෙරෙහි අලි පරපුර දක්වන දායකත්වය
(Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madhusanka, N.M.A.N.; Atthanayake, A.M.M.C.