Daniachew Worku ' s Writings: Three Plays and Two Novels
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1983-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Daniachew Worku ' s writings: Three Plays and Two Novels is a
thesis in three parts . The first part is intended to give the reader
a general idea of the major themes in the three plays and the two
novels of Daniachew Worku. In the second part the genr es which the
writer uses as well as the techniques he employs are discuss ed.
The third part deals mainly with Daniachew Worku 1 s social concerns
in his three plays and two novels. I n the introduction to the thesis
a brief background of Ethiopian literatur e is given in order to avoid
the dangers o f treating Daniachew Wo rku ' s works o f art in i solation.
Segegenish Isat (100 pp .), still in the manuscript form , is a
play written in the late fifties. This play was staged in Harar
Medhane Alem Secondary School a nd Addis Ababa Technical School
respectively , when the author was an Amharic teacher in these schools.
Sewalle Biyye (pp . 134), published in 1958, is a verse play . Tibelch
(pp . 100) , in the manuscript form, is a play whick was put up at the
Creative Arts Centre of the present Addis Ababa University and at thr.
National Theatre in 1964 . These plays are all written in Amha ric.
At afris (pp . 330) , a novel written in Amha ric, was pu bl is~ed
in 1970 . The Thirteenth Sun ( pp . 172) , is a novel writt en in English
and p ublished in 1973 . All dates a re in Gregorian Calendar .
In his plays and his novels , Daniachew Vlo rku draws the atten tio n
o f his audience to questions regarding the problems of his own society
with the sensitivity of the artist . The artist 's sensitivity is
especially remarkable in the play Tibelch , and in the two novels,
Aaafris and Whe Thirteenth Sun .
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In the society which Daniachew Wo rku depicts through his playsand novels, there is a conflict of the old and the new in Ethiopia .
Ethiopia ' s traditional values die hard , while forces of modernity
call f o r a lot of sacrifice and struggle . To ~iscern what is
ostensible and what is real in both the old and the new sets of
social values presents a lot of di fficulty
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