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Classification of Northern Sotho detective stories

Published in: South African Journal of African Languages
Volume 21 , issue 3-4, pages: 220–225

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2001.10587471

Author(s): MJ MojalefaDepartment of African Languages, Republic of South Africa,

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to classify Northern Sotho detective stories according to their type. This article focuses on (a) a description of the concept “detective story”; (b) the problem of classifications of this type of story by various literary theorists, and (c) a suggested “experimental” classification of Northern Sotho detective stories.

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