Moffat Moyo

University of Zambia | UNZA · Department of Arts Languages and Literary Studies

This article aims at investigating whether or not there is novelness as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Dambudzo Marechera’s House of Hunger. It focuses on Bakhtin’s concepts of carnivalesque and contemporaneity in examining the quality of novelness in House of Hunger. Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of novelness says that the novel has its own quality tha...

Novelness in the Zimbabwean Novel: A Bakhtinian Examination of Black-Authored Prose Fiction in English by Moffat Moyo This study of novelness in black-authored Zimbabwean fiction in English aimed at investigating whether or not there is novelness as defined by Bakhtin in the Zimbabwean novel in English. The study sought to achieve the following...

The aim of this study was to show the relevance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) to the development process of nations, particularly in Africa which has the distinction of being the least developed in the world, especially when it comes to the sub-Saharan part of the continent. The study examined the cultural status of Africa and noted that th...

This article is part of a larger study on novelness in the Zimbabwean novel, and is restricted to the novel's quality of assimilating other genres. This follows Mikhail Bakhtin's theory that the novel is an incomplete and ever-growing genre as it is a culmination of other genres. This article examines Chenjerai Hove's first novel published in Engli...

This work was born out of a research project embarked upon by the Zambia Textbook, Academic and Non-fiction Authors Association (ZATANFAA). The objective was to examine the writing space in the country. For example, we tried to assess if there was writing activity going on and how that was being responded to by Zambian readers. The study also attem...

This study is concerned with fiction as an imaginary product therefore a lie. The work runs through the question of hat a lie is, and ho una oidable it is. Using Plato s theor of imitation, the work goes on to suggest that fiction is a lie. While not completely agreeing with Plato that imitation is dangerous, the work explores how Margaret At ood i...

Many colonised countries have found themselves embracing the language of their colonial masters. Zambia, colonized by Britain, has had shifts in its language policy, now adopting the local language policy for early primary schooling (Preschool to Grade Four). In an attempt to investigate parents’ experiences with the local language as the language...

The paper discusses symbolism in John Luangala's short story 'On a Campaign Trail'. It begins with an examination of symbolism and how it is employed in literary texts. The work then focuses on the short story and identifies that symbolism has been employed in two ways: firstly the text as a symbol and secondly individual symbols are in the text. W...

This paper aims at showing how rhetoric and meaning in Zambian poetry interact. The work analyses the definition of poetry and gives the understanding that poetry is an artistic use of language that employs figurative language for maximum effect. The work also analyses rhetoric and concludes that the sole aim of rhetoric is to persuade the audience...

This work examines Wole Soyinka's use of the allegory through which he sneaks himself into the text of Death and the King's Horseman. Using the theory of New Historicism which claims that there is a relationship between the text and the historical milieu of the text, the paper explores Soyinka's background and relates it to the text under discussio...

This work examines Wole Soyinka's use of the allegory through which he sneaks himself into the text of Death and the King's Horseman. Using the theory of New Historicism which claims that there is a relationship between the text and the historical milieu of the text, the paper explores Soyinka's background and relates it to the text under discussio...

The paper explores the poetry used in urban Vimbuza songs. This is done by studying the background of the Tumbuka, followed by Vimbuza before linking it to urban Vimbuza. The paper later concludes that the songs in urban Vimbuza are completely tied to traditional Tumbuka thought and not linked to modern society.

The paper analyses the presence and nature of violence towards women in Zambian short fiction. Through the theories of feminism and the Fred-propelled psychoanalysys, the paper analyses three short fiction texts that include: Luangala’s The Innocence of a Dog; A Collection of Short Stories (2007), ZAWWA’s Eavesdropping: A Collection of Short Storie...