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Narrative enablement : constructions of disability in contemporary African imaginaries

Lipenga, Ken Junior (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines depictions of disability in selected African films, novels and memoirs. Central to the thesis is the concept of narrative enablement, which is discussed as a property that texts have ...
Nation in crisis : alternative literary representations of Zimbabwe Post-2000

Nyambi, Oliver (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The last decade in Zimbabwe was characterised by an unprecedented economic and political crisis. As the crisis threatened to destabilise the political status quo, it prompted in governmental circles the ...
Negotiating (trans)national identities in Ugandan literature

Kahyana , Danson Sylvester (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines how selected Ugandan literary texts portray constructions and negotiations of national identities as they intersect with overlapping and cross-cutting identities like race, ethnicity, ...
Past (pre)occupations, present (dis)locations : the nineteenth century restoried in texts from/about South Africa, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Ellis, Jeanne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the 'restorying‘ of British settler colonialism in a range of texts that negotiate the intricacies of post-settler afterlives in the postcolonial contexts of South Africa, Canada, ...
Praxis and/as critique in the translations of the oeuvre of Ingrid Winterbach

Gray van Heerden, Chantelle (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I investigate how aesthetics, politics and ethics intersect as material flows in translation, and how these actualise in the oeuvre of Lettie Viljoen/Ingrid Winterbach. With the ...
The representation of African humanism in the narrative writings of Es'kia Mphahlele

Rafapa, Lesibana Jacobus (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)

The introductory chapter of this thesis – in which I place Mphahlele's works within the Afrocentric, postcolonial theoretical context within which he wrote – consists of three sections that explain the three different ways ...
The representation of women in the works of three South African novelists of the transition

Ibinga, Stephane Serge (Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)

The dissertation focuses on literary representation of female characters in selected novels by three particular South African writers working within the transitional phase (from the formal ending of apartheid up to the ...
Representations of troubled childhoods in selected post-1990 African fiction in English

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 ...
Should I stay or should I go : Zimbabwes white writing, 1980 to 2011

Tagwirei, Cuthbeth (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis finds its epistemological basis in two related motives: the re-conceptualisation of white writing in Zimbabwe as a sub-category of Zimbabwean literature, and the recognition of white narratives ...
A theoretical model for a Fang-French-English Specialized multi-volume school dictionary

Ella, Edgard Maillard (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)

The policy to preserve and implement mother tongues as medium of education in Gabon will lead to the establishing of a bilingual education system. This system will involve mother tongues and French, the official language. ...
Unavowable communities : mapping representational excess in South African literary culture, 2001-2011

Mbao, Wamuwi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Uncovering the apocalypse : narratives of collapse and transformation in the 21st century Fin de Siècle

Carstens, Johannes Petrus (Delphi) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the idea of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction (sf) written during the current fin de siècle period. I have dated this epoch, known as the information era, as ...
Unresolved irony and the late novels of Henry James

Heyns, Michiel W. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1983-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the late novels of Henry James in the light of a distinction between "resolved" and "unresolved" ironies. The first chapter aims to clarify this distinction, arguing that in "traditional" ...
Womens historical fiction after feminism : discursive reconstructions of the Tudors in contemporary literature

Barlow, Jenna Elizabeth (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Historical fiction is a genre in a constant state of flux: since its inception in the nineteenth century, it has been shaped by cultural trends and has persistently responded to the way in which history ...
Writing black: the South African short story by black writers

Gaylard, Rob (Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)

This study attempts a re-reading and re-evaluation of the work of black South African short story writers from R.R.R. Dhlomo (circa 1930) to Zoë Wicomb (at the end of the 1980s). The short story, along with the autobiography, ...
Writing marginality : history, authorship and gender in the fiction of Zoe Wicomb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ngwira, Emmanuel Mzomera (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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 ...
Writing women in Uganda and South Africa : emerging writers from post-repressive regimes

Spencer, Lynda Gichanda (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis examines how women writers from Uganda and South Africa simultaneously offer a critique of nationalist narratives and articulate a gendered nationalism. My focus will be on the new imaginings ...