A Postmodernist Reading of Selected Ethiopian Novels in English A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
| dc.contributor.advisor | Matthews Associate Prof., Berhanu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yirsaw, Liknaw | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T06:51:12Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-05T13:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T06:51:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-05T13:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study has been designed to make a modest attempt which could add contributions on some of the practices that can make Ethiopian literature in English into its stature. In other words, this study has been attempted because researchers in most of the time are not zealous on Ethiopian literature in English. The study has been employing postmodernism as a tool of analysis, for postmodernism is primarily inaugurated for giving fair attention for the marginalized literatures like Ethiopian literature in English. Therefore, the analysis in this dissertation has been made on selected Ethiopian Novels in English in line with postmodern narrative strategies. Thus, the chief postmodern narrative strategies reflected in the novels include; interrogating the historical, political, religious and cultural realities; magical realism in relation to fantasy, irony and blackhumour; metafiction, historiographic metafiction, maximalism, fragmentation, intertextuality and the denial of superior over inferior cultural presentations. Therefore, the novels have been read in line with basic postmodern narrative strategies. On top of their own differences, all the four novels are similar in relation to reflecting major postmodern narrative strategies. In simple terms, though there are some differences among the individual novels selected for the dissertation, they are equally appropriate to be read as postmodern texts. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/29867 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | A Postmodernist Reading of Selected Ethiopian Novels in English | en_US |
| dc.title | A Postmodernist Reading of Selected Ethiopian Novels in English A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |