Armah, Ayi Kwei (Vol. 136) - B. M. Ibitokun （essay date Spring/Fall 1993）
B. M. Ibitokun （essay date Spring/Fall 1993）
SOURCE: “Visual Iconology in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born,” in Commonwealth Novel in English, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring/Fall, 1993, pp. 13-29.
[In the following essay, Ibitokun explores visual communication in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.]
Visual experiences play an important role in our gradual apprehension of the universe. They are not restricted to the realm of the physical, they also have to do with the mental. In fact, the interaction of the physical and the mental is something of a reflex. In the child, physical sight is more emphasized than mental sight in the sense that the child takes in through the eyes pleasure experiences and events of the world around it. Through visual experiences and correspondences, the personality of the child is forged and shaped in a certain social matrix. As time goes on, the child becomes more and more...
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