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Alternative afterlives : secular expeditions to the undiscovered country

Adriaanse, Jaco Hennig (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates texts which are argued to construct secular imaginings of the afterlife. As such my argument is built around the way in which these texts engage with death, while simultaneously ...
The apartheid censors' responses to the works of Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral and Steve "Bantu" Biko

Ross, Tamlyn Sue (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Bearing witness to trauma : representations of the Rwandan genocide

Samuel, Karin (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis will examine representations of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath in selected literary and filmic narratives. It aims in particular to explore the different ways in which narrative ...
Becoming the third generation: negotiating modern selves in Nigerian Bildungsromane of the 21st century

Smit, Willem Jacobus (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABTRACT: In recent years, original and exciting developments have been taking place in Nigerian literature. This new body of literature, collectively referred to as the ―third generation‖, has lately received ...
Between wilderness and number : on literature, colonialism and the will to power

Hugo, Pieter Hendrik (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-10-11)

The eras of colonial expansion and the era designated the modern have been both chronologically and philosophically linked from the commencement of the Renaissance period and Enlightenment thought in the 15th century. The ...
Bodies and borders : space and subjectivity in three South African texts

Mulder, F. Adele (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between body, subjectivity and space in three antipastoral novels. The texts which I will be discussing, Karel Schoeman’s This Life, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s ...
Borrowing identities : a study of identity and ambivalence in four canonical English texts and the literary responses each invokes

Steenkamp, Elzette (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)

The notion that the post-colonial text stands in direct opposition to the canonical European text, and thus acts as a kind of counter-discourse, is generally accepted within post-colonial theory. In fact, this concept ...
C. Louis Leipoldt and the making of a South African modernism

Oppelt, Riaan N. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Complex urban identities : an investigation into the everyday lived realities of cities as reflected in selected postmodern texts

Snyman, Adalet (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of the city has evolved over time with generations of city dwellers. The rapid advance of technology has promoted globalisation, which has brought about increased familiarity with diverse ...
Confession, embodiment and ethics in the poetry of Antjie Krog and Joan Metelerkamp

Weyer, Christine Louise (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
The contextual compass : a literary-historical study of three British women’s travel writing on Africa, 1797 – 1934

Visser, Liezel (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Texts by women travellers describing their journeys date back almost as far as those produced by their male counterparts, yet women’s travel writing has only become an area of academic interest during ...
De-demonising universality : transcultural dragons and the universal agent in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and David Eddings' The Belgariad

Steenkamp, Janka (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation provides a reading of the fantasy novel series Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and The Belgariad by David Eddings. In particular this dissertation endeavours to recuperate a literary ...
Diasporic imaginaries : memory and negotiation of belonging in East African and South African Indian narratives

Ocita, James (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Discursive features of health worker-patient discourses in four Western Cape HIV/AIDS clinics where English is the lingua franca

Njweipi-Kongor, Diana Benyuei (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a qualitative analytical study that investigates the use of English as lingua franca (ELF) between doctors and patients with different L1 at four different HIV/AIDS clinics in the Western Cape. ...
Disenchanting the American dream : the interplay of spatial and social mobility through narrative dynamic in Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Wolfe

Theron, Cleo Beth (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Embedded subjectivity in the work of J.M. Coetzee

Smuts, Merriman Eckard (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the result of an immersion in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I have taken various of Coetzee’s novels, namely Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life ...
Ethics of the real : Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and the touch of the world

Rosochacki, Elke (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

This dissertation rests on the assumption that the literary text is fundamentally part of the world from which it emerges. Following Heidegger's understanding of the work of art as a form of unconcealment, it argues that ...
An examination of prison, criminality and power in selected contemporary Kenyan and South African narratives

Ndlovu, Isaac (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis undertakes a comparative examination of South African and Kenyan auto/biographical narratives of crime and imprisonment. Although some attention is paid to narratives of political imprisonment, ...
Fusions of the feminine and technology : exploring the cyborg as subversive tool for feminist reconstructions of identity

Volschenk, Jacolien (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

In this dissertation the dominant metaphor for the fusion between the feminine and technology, the cyborg, will be examined through various texts to assess the value the cyborg has for feminism as a tool to exposes the ...
Global and local identities: screening the body (politic) in the medical drama series

Swanepoel, Jan-Hendrik (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the medical drama series as a television phenomenon which foregrounds the body as central narrative device. By considering House M.D. and Jozi H as global and local ...