ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis puts the fiction of Zoë Wicomb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie into conversation with particular reference to three issues: authorship, history and gender. Apart from anything else, what Wicomb ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: C. Louis Leipoldt had, in his lifetime and after his death, a celebrated reputation as an important Afrikaans poet in South Africa. He remains most remembered for his contribution to the growth of Afrikaans ...
Buchanan, Andrea Susan(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores how Justin Cartwright’s perspective on Englishness, as a South Africanborn
writer living and writing in England, is played out in his novels. Four of Cartwright’s
novels with English ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the ways in which the censors during the apartheid era responded to
the works of three black liberation theorists; namely Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral and Steve
Biko. Although other ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores selected Indian narratives that emerge in South Africa and East Africa between 1960 and 2010, focusing on representations of migrations from the late 19th century, with the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the work of two contemporary South African poets, Antjie Krog
and Joan Metelerkamp. Through an analytical-discursive engagement with their work,
it explores the relationship between ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the long-established interrelation between spatial and social mobility in
the American context, the result of the westward movement across the frontier that was seen
as being ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis takes as its subject matter a small field of activity in South African fiction in English, a field which I provisionally title the post-transitional moment. It brings together several works ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Student Preparedness for Academic Writing examines perceptions of student preparedness
for academic writing in the first-year literary studies course, English 178, located in the
English Department at ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this dissertation is the examination of the relationship between space and
identity in recent narratives of migration, in contemporary African literature. Migrant
narratives suggest that ...
Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores representations of troubled childhoods in post-1990 African narratives. Defining troubled childhoods as the experiences of children exposed to different forms of violations including ...
Mzamane's comments over the years seem to reflect a doubt or ambivalence over the status of his first collection of stories, Mzala (1980). In his introduction Mzamane describes himself as
'a teacher first, an aspiring ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the recent past, the large-scale production and marketing of e-reading devices, such as Amazon’s Kindle, and tablet computers, such as Apple’s iPad, have allowed literary works to be presented in a ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, I undertake an extensive overview of a range of language activities that foreground the materiality of language, and that require an active reader oriented towards the text as a producer, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the representation of personal narrative and nationhood within the genre of literary non-fiction written around the theme of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The texts to be ...