Narrative Technique of Adam Reta’s Gracha Qachiloch: Stream-of-Consciousness in Focus
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2012-05
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Addis Ababa University
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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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Technique of Adam Reta’s Gracha Qachiloch