The narrative perspective in Segoete's novel Monono ke Mohodi ke Mouwane

Abstract

This article examines the anchoring of the narrative perspective in one of the earliest Sesotho novels, Monono ke Mohodi ke Mouwane. Plot structure, point of view, thematic structure and character sketching are also examined. The writer suggests that although the story is told predominantly from the 1-narrator point of view, the novelist has transcended the limitations of this narrative technique by adopting a multiple narrative perspective, combining the narrator-protagonist, third-person, and omniscient narrator perspectives through embedding and shift of tense. The writer argues that the technique employed in this novel is sophisticated and has never been emulated in Sesotho literature.