Browsing by Author "Walelign, Hiwot"

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    Narrative Technique of Adam Reta's Gracha Qachiloch: Stream-of-Consciousness in Focus
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-05) Walelign, Hiwot; Sharma, Pradeep (PhD)
    This thesis is a humble attempt to study the narrative technique used in Gracha Qachiloch, stream-of-consciousness in focus. Gracha Qachiloch was published in 2005 and has 462 pages. The paper shortly discusses what narrative technique is and passes to di scussing the psychological and literary background of stream-of-consciousness. It also discusses different related studies that are done on the employment of the stream-of-consciousness technique in different fictional works and also other studies that are done on the different features of Gracha Qachiloch. Even though the paper covers some prevalent concepts of stream-of-consciousness in psychology, its major focus is the literary aspects of stream-of-consciousness as a narrative technique. It discusses different studies done on the technique and its application to different novels. These studies have establi shed different features of the stream-of-consciousness teclmique in fictional writing and these featu res are discussed in the conceptual framework. The features of the stream-of-consciousness technique that are discussed in the conceptual framework are applied in the analysis of the paper. Numerous passages are taken out from the novel, translated into English, and are assessed according to the features as to what level the stream-of-consciousness technique is employed in the novel. The analysis part leads the study to the conclusion that the chief narrative mode used in the novel is interior monologue and that stream-of-consciousness technique is experimented as well. The study also concludes that there is a development of the employment of the technique in many of its features as the story in the novel develops from the beginning to the end. Moreover, it concludes that Amharic writers can experiment with the stream-of-consciousness technique in their writings and exploit the Amharic language in a new way. And this in turn may diversify the readership experience of Amharic fictional works.
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    Narrative Technique of Adam Reta’s Gracha Qachiloch: Stream-of-Consciousness in Focus
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-05) Walelign, Hiwot; Sharma, Pradeep (PhD)
    This thesis is a humble attempt to study the narrative technique used in Gracha Qachiloch, stream-of-consciousness in focus. Gracha Qachiloch was published in 2005 and has 462 pages. The paper shortly discusses what narrative technique is and passes to discussing the psychological and literary background of stream-of-consciousness. It also discusses different related studies that are done on the employment of the stream-of-consciousness technique in different fictional works and also other studies that are done on the different features of Gracha Qachiloch. Even though the paper covers some prevalent concepts of stream-of-consciousness in psychology, its major focus is the literary aspects of stream-of-consciousness as a narrative technique. It discusses different studies done on the technique and its application to different novels. These studies have established different features of the stream-of-consciousness technique in fictional writing and these features are discussed in the conceptual framework. The features of the stream-of-consciousness technique that are discussed in the conceptual framework are applied in the analysis of the paper. Numerous passages are taken out from the novel, translated into English, and are assessed according to the features as to what level the stream-of-consciousness technique is employed in the novel. The analysis part leads the study to the conclusion that the chief narrative mode used in the novel is interior monologue and that stream-of-consciousness technique is experimented as well. The study also concludes that there is a development of the employment of the technique in many of its features as the story in the novel develops from the beginning to the end. Moreover, it concludes that Amharic writers can experiment with the stream-of-consciousness technique in their writings and exploit the Amharic language in a new way. And this in turn may diversify the readership experience of Amharic fictional works.
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    The Practice and Significance of Magical Realism in Selected African Novels
    (2020-06) Walelign, Hiwot; Yazbec, Olga (Phd)
    This study entitled The Practice and Significance of Magical Realism in Selected African Novels attempts to read different African novels through the lens of magical realism. Magical realism, introduced to the realm of literature mostly with Latin American novels and gaining worldwide recognition with postcolonial literary works, has been a focal point of different scholarly studies. In Africa, Ben Okri‘s Famished Road has been studied by many for its skilful employment of the technique. The motivation behind taking up this topic is to fill the research gap in reading different novels from different regions of Africa in one volume and to be able to observe the trend in the practice and significance of using magical realism. In doing so, the paper aims to compare and contrast how different novelists from different contexts in Africa have applied the different features that magical realism is known for. After establishing the practices of the usage in different regions, the study attempts to identify the drive that motivates novelists to use magical realism and it also tries to highlight the issues raised through the magical realist approach. Five novels have been chosen for this study namely; The Heart of Redness, The Bleeding of the Stone, Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez, Woman of the Aeroplanes and Wizard of the Crow. To read these novels, a theoretical framework is formed using magical realism‘s different features theorized by different critics. The practices and significances of the use of magical realism in these novels are studied comparatively in order to show how and why the approach is used in different contexts. In addition, the paper attempts to identify if there are any differences or similarities among different traditional contexts in Africa in the employment of magical realism and if the issues raised through it have commonalities. The fact that the novels are chosen from South, North, East, West and Central Africa and that they are studied comparatively in one thesis could be taken as a new contribution in showing expressions of magical realism in different backgrounds. The study concludes that different novelists in different parts of Africa have used magical realism associating it with their own contexts, connecting it with their respective cultural backgrounds, shared historical accounts, commenting on existing economic, social and political situations.