Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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Biography of a vanished community : South End, Port Elizabeth
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempts to construct a biography of the community of South End, Port Elizabeth, in space and time. This project arises from a need to understand the birth, growth, zenith, decline and demise ...
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C. Louis Leipoldt and the making of a South African modernism
(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 ...
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Confession, embodiment and ethics in the poetry of Antjie Krog and Joan Metelerkamp
(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 ...
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Contemporary fictional representations of sexualities from authoritarian African contexts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, I investigate the contentious subject of sexualities as represented in fiction from selected Anglophone African countries which, even post-independence, have tended to enforce ...
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The dialogics of satire : foci and faultlines in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism, as well as postmodernism, to open up faultlines in satire, and to explore and challenge various perceptions and discourses surrounding and related ...
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Diasporic imaginaries : memory and negotiation of belonging in East African and South African Indian narratives
(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 ...
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Discourses of poverty in literature : assessing representations of indigence in post-colonial texts from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis undertakes a comparative reading of post-colonial literature written in English in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to bring into focus the similarities and differences between fictional ...
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Discursive features of health worker-patient discourses in four Western Cape HIV/AIDS clinics where English is the lingua franca
(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. ...
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Ecocriticism and the oil encounter : readings from the Niger Delta
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study seeks to understand the ways that environmental concerns and the phenomenon of oil production in the Niger Delta are captured in contemporary literary representations. In the thesis, I enlist ...
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Encountering strange lands : migrant texture in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study engages with the complete novelistic oeuvre of the Zanzibari-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose fiction is dedicated to the theme of migration. With each novel, however, Gurnah deploys ...
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Evocations of poverty in selected novels of Meja Mwangi and Roddy Doyle : a study of literary representation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores fictional representations of poverty in selected novels of Meja Mwangi and Roddy Doyle, respectively Kenyan and Irish – examining techniques of literary representation and how the two ...
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An examination of prison, criminality and power in selected contemporary Kenyan and South African narratives
(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, ...
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From Chawton to Oakland : configuring the nineteenth-century domestic in Catherine Hubback's writing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis engages the ideological ambivalence about the nineteenth-century middle-class domestic that emerged at mid-century by focusing on the non-canonical British and Californian writing of a fairly ...
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Imagining the city in Zimbabwean literature 1949 to 2009
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis is on the literary imagining of the city in Zimbabwean literature that emerges as a re-visioning and contestation of its colonial and postcolonial manifestations. Throughout the seven chapters ...
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Institutionalised homosexuality in South Africa: queering same-sex desire
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation looks at South African literary and cultural representations of male homosexual desire from 1948 to 2013. It employs Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics/biopower and Judith Butler’s ...
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Interregnum in Providence : the fragmentation of narrative as quest in the prose fictions of Heman Melville
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Herman Melville (1819-1891) remains a recalcitrant and enigmatic presence in the Western canon. This dissertation explores the radical narrative strategies engaged by Melville in the composition of his ...
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Intra- and inter-continental migrations and diaspora in contemporary African fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)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 ...
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Language limits : the dissolution of the lyric subject in experimental print and performance poetry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)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, ...
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Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of various historical novels which dealt to a greater or lesser degree with the Great Trek and were written between the 1840s and the 1930s in Dutch, Afrikaans ...
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The making and remaking of gender relations in Tanzanian fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the fictional representation of gender relations in novels set during five historical periods in Tanzania – the pre-colonial, colonial, nationalism, Ujamaa, and the current neoliberalism ...
