PA NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY OF EDWIDGE DANTICAT’STHE FARMING OF BONES, THE DEW BREAKERAND BREATH, EYES, MEMORY
PA NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY OF EDWIDGE DANTICAT’STHE FARMING OF BONES, THE DEW BREAKERAND BREATH, EYES, MEMORY
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2021-04
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YOHANNA, Gilamdo Kwem
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Abstract
The research explores some of the basic narratological poetics in Edwidge Danticat‘s narrative
texts within the context of Caribbean women narratives in order to, illustrate the extent to which
narratology provides deeper understanding of how textual structures of narratives consistently
enhance their meaning, demonstrate how the poetics of narratology are viable tools for the
examination of how the textual elements of Edwidge Danticat‘s narratives, and show the extent
to which, and to what ends the classical narratological poetics of ―narration‖, ―focalization‖, and
―time‖are deployed in the selected texts represent the contextual realities of the Caribbean
people. As a result, this dissertation, using Narratology (a text based theory), examines the
poetics of narration, focalization and time in Edwidge Danticat‘s The Farming of Bones, The
Dew Breaker and Breath, Eyes, Memory. Relying on Gerard Genettean narratological poetics as
the framework upon which the analysis is based, the research aimsto validate the extent to which,
and to what ends the poetics of narration, focalization and time have been deployed in the
selected texts. The dissertation, therefore, adopts the qualitative research methodology which
mainly relies on the said primary texts, relevant books, journals, articles, library materials and
internet sources as modes of data collection and analysis. The study finds that the application of
narration, focalization, and time in The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker and Breath, Eyes,
Memoryare all intended to capture the realities contained in the narratives. Thus, this dissertation
concludes that the effective representation of Haitian/Caribbean contextual realities in The
Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker and Breath, Eyes, Memory are also linked to the effective
deployment of the textual poetics of narration, focalization and time in the novel.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A.) IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES,
FACULTY OF ARTS,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA-NIGERIA
Keywords
NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY,, EDWIDGE DANTICAT’S,, FARMING,, BONES,, DEW BREAKERAND BREATH,, EYES,, MEMORY.