Structural Analysis Of The Evolutionary Motif Portrait And Discourse Of National Identity In The Kebra Nagast Tobbiya And Dertogada

Structuralism is a twentieth century approach or strategy which altered the conformist view ofrnnature and reality as metaphysics and historicism do. Structuralism can be taken as a way,rnapproach, method or philosophy of critical investigation of relationships among deep and surfacernlevels of being and human culture in general; the modern structural world view emerged asrnprominent manner of study of universal rules and universality with the coming of Ferdinand dernSaussure’s book Course in General Linguistics in 1916. The Prague School that included RomanrnJakobson and S. Troubetzkoy are responsible for the enrichment of structural linguistics andrnstructuralism. Noam Chomsky and Levi-Strauss have also played an important role in the furtherrndevelopment of the structural approach and able to successfully maintain its promising influence inrnthe Western mode of thought from semiotics to cybernetics and general systems theory.rnStructuralism, hence, is attributed with the undented manifestation of things in their entirety andrnshared elemental constitution for an underlying principle is governing their existence andrninteractions. This unequivocal approach, however, had been mistaken as a study of static forms orrnrefrigerated defunct even by some well-noted thinkers like J. Derrida and M. Foucault due to theirrndeplorable fallacies and dubious insights about the concept; contrarily structuralism is a highlyrnsystematic and inclusive of the interconnectedness of things to form an relatively definable holisticrnentity of small constantly transformative as well as self-regulative structures. Thus, the structuralrninsight situates itself somewhere in the middle, dispelling the inertially formalists and chaosrntheorists; and philosophizing that things are chaotic forms or formal chaos.rnThereof, the painstaking conceptual framework of structuralism has been discussed and analyzedrnin chapter three, following the introductory chapter and review of related literature respectively. Inrnchapter three the concept of structuralism is discussed in detail fully understood to avoid thernpopular misconceptions including that of “post-structuralism”. Chapter four lines up next tornanalyze the three focus materials’ (the Kebra Nagast, Tobbiya and Dertogada) historical, social,rnpolitical, and literary structural configurations, particularly accompanied with Northrop Frye’srnstructural theory of recurrent formations. Thus, the analysis part of this research paper—rnsynthesizing literature, philosophy and politics—discusses the selected materials’ structuralrninterconnection and similitude. And finally, the conclusion is rendered in chapter five to elicit thernmajor points that have been constructed in the entire chapters, especially the fourth one.

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