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The Moral Imagination at Work in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia: Reconsidering The Thirteenth Sun by Daniachew Worku.
- Source :
- Research in African Literatures; Winter2010, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p1-25, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Daniachew Worku's The Thirteenth Sun is a pilgrimage narrative with a father-son conflict at its core, offering a complex and loosely allegorical depiction of a conflicted Ethiopian society at the close of Haile Selassie's reign. Daniachew was already well known for his Amharic writing when he published The Thirteenth Sun in English, in Heinemann's African Writers Series (AWS) in 1973. Drawing on a range of contextual information including records from the AWS and from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP), this essay invites a reconsideration of this important Ethiopian text. Despite the ubiquitous decadence and violence of the narrative, the essay asserts that reconciliation emerges as a dominant theme, and that the novel thus offers a noteworthy instance of a writer's moral imagination at work at a time of conflicted transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CRITICISM
FATHER-son relationship in literature
ETHICS in literature
FICTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00345210
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Research in African Literatures
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 54109482
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/RAL.2010.41.4.1