Questioning Standards in Ethiopic Classical Writings through Two Distinctive Features of the Ḥatätas: Autarchic Logic and First-Person Writing - Centre d'Etudes des mondes Africains
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Questioning Standards in Ethiopic Classical Writings through Two Distinctive Features of the Ḥatätas: Autarchic Logic and First-Person Writing

Anaïs Wion

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This chapter explores two distinctive features of the Ḥatäta Zär'a Ya‛ǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥǝywät. First, there is the fact that both texts are standalone pieces and solely quote biblical texts, in keeping with the internal logic of their self-sufficient mode of thought. It then explore the highly complex use of the first person singular in the Ḥatäta,notably in the paratextual sections, including the incipit, explicit,and colophons. A brief overview of the use of the first person singular in Ethiopian literature as well as of extremely rare and ad hoc instances of the autobiographical genre evince the norms from which the Ḥatätaswould deviate were they were to beconsidered as authentically Ethiopian texts dating to the seventeenth century.
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Anaïs Wion. Questioning Standards in Ethiopic Classical Writings through Two Distinctive Features of the Ḥatätas: Autarchic Logic and First-Person Writing. Cantor, Lea; Fasil Merawi; Egid, Jonathan. In Search of Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob. On the History, Philosophy, and Authorship of the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät, de Gruyter, pp.67 - 90, 2024, 9783110725742. ⟨10.1515/9783110725810-004⟩. ⟨halshs-04699559⟩
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