M.A. / The purpose of this study is to look into Oedipal structures in the novels of Sibusiso Nyembezi. The notion of an Oedipal structure is derived from Sophocles' play entitled 'Oedipus the King'. In this play, Oedipus, a forsaken child, learns that he is a son of a Theban King. On the way to Thebes, he encounters and assassinates his father. Oedipus earns himself a title of a king after solving the riddle of the sphinx and marries his own mother ...

M.A. (African Languages) / The study looks at the socio-economic milieu, the socio-political milieu, the socio-economic themes and the socio-political themes in the three novels written by Sibusiso L. Nyembezi namely; Ubudoda Abukhulelwa, Mntanami-Mntanami and Inkinsela YaseMgungundlovu. The socio-political milieu and socio-economic milieu are viewed from the perspective of the Marxist Literary Theories. These theories are chosen to form the theoretical framework of this study because they best view man in relation to his sociopolitical circumstances and also in relation to the country's system of economic production. We observed that Nyembezi places his characters in real socioeconomic and socio-political circumstances. These in turn determine the thoughts, words, actions and fate of characters...

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1985.