“Seiko musina morari?”: the carnivalesque modes of the pungwe institution in selected Shona novels

This study is an analysis of the depiction of Pungwe (Night Vigil) in selected Shona novels and songs. The study uses Bakhtin’s description of a historical phenomenon-cum-literary theoretical framework called the carnivalesque. The theory’s tenets apply to the analysis of Shona novels and songs. It...

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Main Author: Viriri, Advice
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Unisa Publications 2016
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Online Access:http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/14505
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1504
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