A purposive sampling technique is used to select the sample novels as the technique allows to select those that yield the most relevant data using some criteria.īased on the criteria set, sixteen novels are selected. The main method of data collection focuses on a close reading of non-literary and literary texts. An eclectic theoretical approach (the New Historicism, Bourdieu’s System Theory and the Critical Discourse Analysis) is employed to understand the representations. The basic research question focuses on how these representations can be explained. The objective of the research is to investigate the representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels. Accordingly, this comparative research which investigates a representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels across three political periods: 1930 – 2010 was designed. Therefore, delimiting the investigation of the problem is considered to be useful to filling the knowledge gap. It would be ambitious to deal with all the literary genres in this respect. Although this literature is believed to be strongly related to the politics of the country, there hasīeen no study that proves this claim across the different political periods in the country. The dissertation concludes with a chapter in which independent findings in the three analysis chapters are summed up and generalizations on the textual and contextual features of the present day Amharic novels are made.Īmharic literature has always occupied an important place in the history of the literary traditions of Ethiopia.
In the third chapter, story is investigated as a narrative strategy in Yeburqa Zemeta (Burka’s Silence) (2000) in the fourth one, focalization is treated as a narrative strategy in Gerač.a Qač.eloč (Greyīells) (2005), and in the fifth chapter, characterization is studied as a narrative strategy inĭèrtogada (Dertogada) (2010). The following three chapters focus on the analysis. Chapter two deals with the theoretical framework where the theoretical insight the research utilizes as a guideline is outlined and methodological issues are specified.
The first one is an introductory chapter in which the research problems, goals and assumptions are explicated. However, it dominantly uses post-classical conceptions of narratology as guidelines for its discussion. The present research applies narratological approaches that range from classical to post-classical Having this conception, form as a narrative strategy is investigated in selected Amharic novels published from 2000 until 2010 in view of expounding the artistic and thematic features of contemporary Amharic novels, endeavouring to fill the knowledge gap in Amharic literary scholarship about their literary features. In this research, form, when understood as a narrative strategy, is not only considered as a textual construct which motivates textual meaning but also regarded as a product of the social milieu from which the text emerges. It mainly contends that it is possible to unravel the textual and contextual qualities of fictional narratives by studying form as a narrative strategy. The aim of this research entitled Narrative Strategies in Selected Amharic Novels from 2000 until 2010 was to shed light on the relationship among form, meaning (content) and social milieuin establishing the textual and contextual features of fictional narratives.
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