A Postmodernist Reading Of Selected Ethiopian Novels In English A Dissertation Submitted To The Department Of Foreign Languages And Literature

This study has been designed to make a modest attempt which could add contributions on somernof the practices that can make Ethiopian literature in English into its stature. In other words,rnthis study has been attempted because researchers in most of the time are not zealous onrnEthiopian literature in English. The study has been employing postmodernism as a tool ofrnanalysis, for postmodernism is primarily inaugurated for giving fair attention for thernmarginalized literatures like Ethiopian literature in English. Therefore, the analysis in thisrndissertation has been made on selected Ethiopian Novels in English in line with postmodernrnnarrative strategies. Thus, the chief postmodern narrative strategies reflected in the novelsrninclude; interrogating the historical, political, religious and cultural realities; magical realismrnin relation to fantasy, irony and blackhumour; metafiction, historiographic metafiction,rnmaximalism, fragmentation, intertextuality and the denial of superior over inferior culturalrnpresentations. Therefore, the novels have been read in line with basic postmodern narrativernstrategies. On top of their own differences, all the four novels are similar in relation to reflectingrnmajor postmodern narrative strategies. In simple terms, though there are some differencesrnamong the individual novels selected for the dissertation, they are equally appropriate to be readrnas postmodern texts.

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