Cahiers Africains des Droits de l’Homme et de la Démocratie ainsi que du Développement Durable (Apr 2023)
THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN THE DESCRIPTION OF SETTING: THE RIVER BETWEEN
Abstract
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's literary work "The River Between" is a novel that participates in the description of space by using language as a system of signs for the encoding and decoding of information. The fictional space in the novel is organized around two spatial cores physically determined and metaphorically evoked by an omniscient narrator; both banks Kameno and Makuyu. In this article, we will apply the categories in style in a fiction selectively to the description of the world of TRB. The procedure in this case will be to start with a general impression of the ridges and then to make selective use of the checklist in order to draw the readers' attention to what seems significant in the description of the Space.
