NARRATIVISATION OF SPACE IN NERVOUS CONDITION BY TSITSI DANGAREMBGA

Joseph Chabushiku  S. Sapwe

Joseph Chabushiku S. Sapwe The University of Lubumbashi

Keywords: Space, Time, Colonialism, Racism, Hybridity, Alienation, Tradition

Abstract

The objective of this article was the narrativisation of space in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Condition. It consisted in the inscription of space in the story since the space has significant place in the narration. The concept of space for narratology is the physically existing environment in which characters live and move called commonly setting. This is defined in other words, as the general socio-historical-geographical environment in which all the actions take place and plays a major role in the meaning of the novel and affects characters’ behaviour. As a matter of fact, Western values and traditional ones, represented in these respective spaces of colonialism and tradition, have impacted the African so that they become hybridised or alienated and colonialists racist.

Author Biography

Joseph Chabushiku S. Sapwe, The University of Lubumbashi

Joseph Sapwe Chabushiku is a lecturer at the University of Lubumbashi, Faculty of Art, inthe Department of English Literature and Languages, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is currently a doctor of philosophy student in literature at the same University. His field of research is in the Nuruddin Farah fictions. He has published various research papers among them; ‘The World View of English and Bemba Proverbs, A Literary Perspective’, ‘The Eurocentric of Palmer’s Criticism over Cyprian Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana,’ and ‘The Romantic and Pantheistic Features in Cyprian’s Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana’, published in the Journal of Humanities of the University of Zambia, and Academia.edu respectively