LANGUAGE AND STYLE EXPERIMENTATIONS IN THOMAS MOFOLO’S CHAKA / RECHERCHES SUR LA LANGUE ET LE STYLE DANS LE ROMAN CHAKA DE THOMAS MOFOLO / EXPERIMENTĂRI ASUPRA LIMBII ŞI STILULUI ÎN ROMANUL CHAKA DE THOMAS MOFOLO

Abstract

The ever central position of Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka has often been justified by the novel’s cultural and thematic contents. This paper rather links this long standing reputation of the narrative to the stylistic and linguistic experimentations initiated by the author. Such experimentations have consisted in fusing languages and aesthetic canons of differing cultural zones.

Keywords

• hybridity
• syncretism
• ideophone
• literary canon
• oral
• print.