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| dc.contributor.author | Yesehak, Abrham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-23T12:03:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-23T12:03:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14279 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study focuses on the human experience of time in narrative as applied in selected postmodern Amharic novels. There have been studies conducted on narrative time in Ethiopia though no study shows how fictional works reveal the experience of time. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate temporal variations, memory, and narrative identity in selected postmodern novels. For this purpose, a narrative inquiry was used as a research design, and Paul Ricoeur’s theory of Time and Narrative was applied as a theoretical framework. For the analysis, two Amharic novels, which are Afə (2010 E.C.) by Adam Reta and Bäfəkər Səm (2009 E.C.) by Alemayehu Gelagay have been selected and analyzed in separate chapters. The findings showed that both novels presented temporal variations that were brought by the effect of fictive imaginative variations. In line with this, traversed time and linear time, public time and mortal time/ordinary time, and metatemporal time have been explored in Afə as well as Bäfəkər Səm. Additionally, death (mortal time) and eternity (eternal time) between public time and mortal time, and metatemporal time were explored as forms of imaginative time. Additionally, different conceptions of time have been identified. Time with the views of transformation and progress, transiency, and cyclicality was identified in Afə. It has been explored cyclical time is dominant in Afə that is because of its unique narrative technique. In Bäfəkər Səm, the time conceptions such as transiency and permanence were identified. Moreover, different forms of memory were found in the selected novels. In Afə, reminiscences of narrators and characters, tizta as making sense of the past, and textual memory have been explored, whereas, in Bäfəkər Səm, only reminiscences of the narrator and the hero and textual memory were identified as a major representation of memory. Regarding narrative identity, the study presented how novels provide mediation of self and the world through the plot’s function presenting an identity of change in permanence. Hence, self-constituency and self-knowledge were explored in Afə while self-constituency and a quest for self-same are what have been identified in Bäfəkər Səm. Finally, the study concludes that the selected novels present the circular mediation of time and narrative through temporal structures and narrative emplotment. Key Terms: Amharic novels; Circular time; Emplotment; Memory; Narrative identity | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
| dc.title | A Circular Mediation of Time: Temporality, Memory and Narrative Identity in Selected Postmodern Amharic Novels | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
