Tesfaye Woubshet AyeleDoktorand
Om mig
My research is focused largely on African literature and on the ways literary texts connect with politics, society, and history. More recently, after having worked as a teacher for several years, I have developed a strong interest in pedagogy. My doctoral project explores how education is portrayed in the early novels of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Tsitsi Dangarembga. The portrayal of education in these highly prized works of fiction, I argue, is not only concerned with showing how education is tied to the realities of power -- especially colonial power -- as has been commonly argued. While acknowledging and developing this line of argument, I explore how these novels portray education as part of a cultural and political project of resistance, decolonization, and national liberation. This important aspect of these novels' portrayal of education has not been systematically explored nor has it been theorized, a gap in our knowledge that I wish to remedy in my doctoral thesis, as indicated by its preliminary title, Pedagogy of National Liberation.
I also have a strong interest in Amharic literary studies. I have contributed to this field of study in the past and I hope to continue doing so in the future.
Publikationer
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Haddis Alemayehu's Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic Novel Fikir iske Mekabir
2023. Tesfaye Woubshet Ayele. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 10 (3), 353-376
ArtikelLäs mer om Haddis Alemayehu's Vision of the Old WorldHaddis Alemayehu’s classic novel ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር (Fikir iske Mekabir, Love until Death, 1958 Ethiopian Calendar, 1965/6 Gregorian Calendar), is lauded by critics as a pioneering realist and modern novel in the Amharic literary tradition. My aim in this article is to scrutinize this take by examining the novel’s narrative temporalities and modes through a dialectical lens. This leads me to argue that the novel’s realism is marked by contradiction and fluidity. Specifically, the emergence of realism in Fikir iske Mekabir is accompanied by its breakdown while the realist narrative mode is accompanied by the traditional narrative modes of epic and hagiography (or, gedl). This hitherto unexamined textual and intertextual quality of Haddis’s novel reveals new insights into its thematic content regarding modernity, tradition, and social reproduction under the old Ethiopian order.
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