Ukungquzulana lwenkcubeko yemveli neyasentshona kwi-ingqumbo yeminyanya / ukuba ndandazile

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This study explores the cultural conflict between the Western and African cultures intwo Xhosa novels. The two novels investigated in this study are Ingqumboyeminyanya by A.C. Jordan and Ukuba ndandazile by W.K. Tamsanqa. Weconcentrate on the two older Xhosa novels with the aim to find out how they deal withthe cultural conflict arising from western and traditional Xhosa life systems.Chapter 1 of the study presents the aims of the study. Chapter 2 presents theoreticalunderpinnings of literature and culture as the theoretical framework of the study. InChapters 3 and 4, two Xhosa novels are analysed, one in each chapter.It is found that conflict in Ingqumbo yeminyanya and Ukuba ndandazile, resultsfrom western and traditional Xhosa value systems that co-exist. The characters in thenovels belong to each camp and have strong views about the other's value system.The protagonists of both novels adhere to the western culture, and they live in theircommunity with antagonists who cherish their traditional Xhosa lifestyle. Thetraditional people are content with their style of life, they are dissatisfied by thewesternised life of their offspring who have become alien and who despise and lookdown upon their own Xhosa tradition and custom. A major problem in the novels isthat the westernised protagonists are a few educated royal leaders who have to leadthe traditional people they despise. Yet because of the majority of the traditionalists,the traditional Xhosa life exerts so much force on the lives of the few educatedprotagonists such that they reach tragic ends. The conclusion that can be madeabout the tragic end of the characters in both novels is that it results from the failureof the intolerance of the western and traditional value systems.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University