Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

What is the author's style in Sizwe Banzi Is Dead by Athol Fugard?

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Because it is a play, the entire narrative is told with an overarching third-person viewpoint. However, the individual narratives are told in a first-person point of view by Styles and Sizwe. Styles is introduced in the beginning of the play and he takes over the story with a series of first-person narratives. After Sizwe walks into Styles’s photography studio, Sizwe takes over the narrative of the play with a first-person account of his history and the events of his finding and taking the passbook of Robert Zwelinzima. The story concludes by returning to Sizwe’s presence in Styles’s studio and the events are narrated in a third-person style with a view incorporating both men.

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