Browsing by Author "Balew Demissie"

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    Afro-Centric Analytic Of Basha Ashebir Bamerica (Mengistu Lema’s Call For Hegemonic Black Race Category A Deadend To Ethiopian’s National Identity conciousness)
    (2024-07) Rozina Alemu; Balew Demissie
    Ethiopia is a unique nation in Africa with a distinctive national character. Its ability "to sustain an unbroken chain of historical civilization free of foreign "corruption" for millennia" has been primarily cited as the reason for the country's uniqueness. One important factor that sets Ethiopians apart from other Africans and people of African descent worldwide is their awareness of their race, which also greatly excludes them from the western (modern) racial classifications. Despite the important role that Ethiopians' race identity plays in their local, regional (African), and worldwide racial relations, Ethiopian and other African scholars seem to have failed to investigate Ethiopians' race consciousness. Another problem that adds to the misperceptions and misunderstandings surrounding the topic is that the scant studies and researches on this topic that are now available are works of Eurocentric scholarship with a predominantly biased picture of an African reality. According to several scholars, Ethiopia's lengthy history of trade, religious exchanges, and ancient civilization have had a significant influence on the development of its own distinct character.Although it is true that these presumptions could provide a logical foundation for drawing a sound conclusion regarding Ethiopians' unique race identity consciousness in Africa, it would be reasonable to question why Ethiopians came to favor a particular racial grouping in the first place. I entirely concentrate on the key historical events and facts that, in my opinion, are essential to comprehending the problem of Ethiopian race, laying aside implications of the complicated and fluid notion of modern race identity itself on this dilemma and its potential response at this early stage.
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    Ideology and the Representation of Female Characters in Ngiigi wa Thiong'o's The River Between and A Grain of Wheat
    (Addis Ababa University, 2009-06) Balew Demissie ; Olga Yazbec
    This thesis aims at showing and analyzing the representation of female characters in Ngugi's two novels-The River Between and A Grain of Wheat from ideological perspectives. To accomplish the study, the notions of ideology and literary representation are discussed. Though ideology IS defined as a set of beliefs, it has specific definitions depending on its kinds. Different types of ideologies such as dominant, authorial, aesthetic, patriarchal and gendered are looked at in the study. Thus, based on ideology and literary representation as a theoretical framework, all female characters in the selected novels are examined. The study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction to the study. The second chapter is devoted to the review of literature on the issues of ideology and representation. The third chapter is analysis and interpretation of the two selected novels. The analysis is divided into four major sections and it analyses and interprets the representation female characters from dominant, authorial, aesthetic, patriarchal and gendered ideological points of view. Finally, the last chapter deals with the conclusion to the analysis in the third chapter, where the representation of female characters in the two novels is examined from the ideological dimensions. The analysis and interpretation of the novels show that female characters are victims of the dominant, gendered and patriarchal ideologies. Ngugi, using his authorial ideology, has shown the different nationalistic roles female characters have played in the two novels. Finally, the study has confirmed that the representation of female characters in the two novels reveals the realities of women in the social context of the period when the novels were written.