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    Blending Orality and Modernist Narrative Forms in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (2014)
    (2025-07-10) Ms Intissar KIBOUCHE
    Abstract This study explores the blending of African oral traditions and modernist narrative techniques in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel Kintu. It investigates how Makumbi blends traditional oral elements, such as myth, song, refrain, repetition, hyperbole, and indigenous language, with contemporary literary methods, particularly fragmentation and stream of consciousness. The research aims to examine how this stylistic integration contributes to the preservation of African literary traditions and the affirmation of cultural identity. Using stylistics as the conceptual framework, the study analyses the narrative strategies employed in Kintu to show how oral and modern forms coexist and enrich each other. Through this fusion, Makumbi not only maintains the vitality of African storytelling but also reclaims and redefines cultural expression within a postcolonial literary context.