Folktale influence on the Zulu novel

Msimang, Christian Themba

dc.contributor.advisor	Ntuli, D. B. Z.
dc.contributor.advisor	Louw, J. A. (Jacobus Abraham)
dc.contributor.author	Msimang, Christian Themba
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-26T13:10:48Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-26T13:10:48Z
dc.date.issued	1983-11
dc.date.submitted	2021-10-26
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28203
dc.description.abstract	This study aims at investigating literary aspects of the Zulu folktale and establishing whether such aspects have had any influence on the Zulu novel. For the purposes of this investigation, this study is divided into seven chapters. Chapter l is an introductory chapter. Plot is the subject of the second chapter. Here an attempt is made to show that certain motifemes which are popular in Zulu folktales are also manifested in Zulu novels. Chapter 3 deals with milieu. The remaining chapters deal with characterisation, theme and style. On the whole, the folktale influence on characterisation has an advers~ effect on the novel. Theme, however, appears to have a positive effect. Certain stylistic devices such as songs have penetrated the Zulu novel from the folktale and they lend to it its unique quality. In the concluding chapter, opinions by various critics on the Zulu novel are assessed and general observations on the findings of this study are summarised.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (vii, 327 leaves)	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	South African indigenous content	en
dc.subject	African languages	en
dc.subject.ddc	896.39863209
dc.subject.lcsh	Zulu (African people) -- Folklore	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Zulu fiction -- History and criticism	en
dc.title	Folktale influence on the Zulu novel	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	African Languages	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (African Languages)