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Descriptive pause in Moses Isegawa’s abyssinian chronicles and snakepit
(American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS), 2024-05) Balituumye, Michael
In the study of narrative duration as theorized by Genette (1980), descriptive pause is one of the four major canonical movement, the others being the scene, summary and ellipsis. During a descriptive pause, the story is suspended while the narrative continues, and Genette notes that it is traditionally deployed to stall action as the story is suspended while the narrative to proceed, and to provide extra narrative information. My contention in this paper is that, pause, like other aspects of narrative temporality, is under studied within the larger corpus of Ugandan novel; secondly, that Isegawa deploys pause for more than its traditional function of description. Therefore, adopting an intrpretivist paradigm, this paper analyses descriptive pause in Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit. This paper embraces a qualitative research approach; specifically, a descriptive case study design was adopted. Data was collected through documentary analysis and close reading; the paper is anchored on the Genettian discoursal perspective of narrative theory.