Cataclysmic Effects of Nature on Man and His Vicinity: Insights from Wale Okediran’s After The Flood

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Abstract

After the flood belongs to the category of newer and contemporary novelistic rendition by Nigerian writers who continue to experiment with the genre of prose fiction. The text chronicles in fictional and in some instances near realistic form, life as affected by both natural (uncontrollable) and human actions. The pivotal narrative element; the disastrous flooding of the Ogunpa river produces ill-fate on human life and other societal constituents. The paper uses a sociological approach to situate the text as a work which seeks to portray literature as a social tool for use in society. The paper surmises that a sociological approach enables, the writer, to harness societal currents into the fictional and imaginative form of the novel.