This study, adopting the corpus-assisted approach in a mix of numerical data and qualitative description of Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born, used frequencies of the occurrence of pejorative terms in the text to determine the dominant subject matters in the novel. This paper argues that the corpus assisted approach can contribute methodologies to support objective investigation of the subject matters of the text.
This view appears skewed in many respects. The majority of studies on the novel have overwhelmingly concluded that corruption is the preoccupation of the text. Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born is a novel known for its extensive portrayal of the ills and anomalies in the Ghanaian society right after independence.
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