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Doctoral Degrees (English)
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Postcolonial minoritarian characters : transformative strategies for re-mediating raced marginalisation in South African English fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation consists of a research component titled “Speak, Love” and a creative component, the original novel Time Will Tell. The research essay is informed by strategic postcolonial imperatives ... -
Myth and counterfactuality in diasporic African women’s novels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation focuses on the way in which a selection of novels by diasporic African women writers has, in different ways, engaged with myth in order to challenge dominant masculinist and essentialist ... -
Vulnerability and agency : queer representations in contemporary literary and cultural texts from Sub-Saharan Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines representations of queer genders and sexualities in literary and cultural texts from sub-Saharan Africa written and/or produced in the twenty-first century. The analysis brings together ... -
Appraising the counterpoint : bifocal readings of literary landscapes in the American Renaissance and post-apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study constitutes an experimental bifocal reading that was prompted by historical and literary parallels and convergences between the United States and South Africa. In particular, the ... -
Imaginaries of oceanic histories in oral and written texts from the Kenyan Coast
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation presents an analysis of selected oral and written texts from the Kenyan coast, with the view of interrogating how differently local oral sources, which have been ignored, suppressed, and ... -
How I lost my mother : care, death, and the politics of invisibility
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This creative writing dissertation falls into two sections. The bulk of the dissertation is a book-length memoir entitled How I lost my mother, and the brief second section provides a reflection on the ... -
Focalization schemas, transnational formations and social remittance in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work contextualises Chimamanda Adichie’s novels and collected short stories within the area of migrant transnationalism, arguing that this is an inherent feature of the content and form of the texts. ... -
Poetics and politics in contemporary African travel writing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates contemporary travel narratives about Africa by Africans authors. Scholarship on travel writing about Africa has largely centred examples from the Global North, yet there is a rich ... -
Reza de Wet (1952-2012) : life and works
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Reza Wet, one of South Africa’s most awarded playwrights, reputed, both locally and internationally, for her prodigious body of work, passed away in 2012 and yet her life as a writer, actress, director ... -
Intimating a female archive : rendering the wounds of family trauma
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation comprises both a practice-led artist’s book which inventively engages the notion of a female family archive, and a substantial research component which theoretically unpacks questions ... -
Historicising borders : studies in Nigerian novels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: More than ever before, border studies is enjoying scholarly attention and cutting across many disciplinary boundaries. The re-shaping of borders, triggered by globalisation and other trans-border historical ... -
Biafra as third space : reading the politics of belonging in Nigeria-Biafra civil war literature
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The image of Biafra as a space of belonging has assumed currency in contemporary secessionist discourse. Wartime Biafran society is framed as a utopia where everyone belonged and felt safe. Consequently, ... -
Films by Kenyan women directors as national allegories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines how selected Kenyan fiction films directed by women filmmakers intervene in national politics. To achieve this, I employ Frederic Jameson’s concept of ‘national allegory’ to ... -
South African female subjectivity (1868-1977): life writing, the agentive "I" and recovering stories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the formation of white female subjectivity in the life writing of three South African women, penned between 1868 and 1977. The subjects are: Betty Molteno (1852-1927), Hettie ... -
Configuring ‘Maasainess’ : contested textual embodiments
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I seek to trace the figure of the Maasai as a fossilized (visual) image circulated in local and global imaginaries since the nineteenth century by British explorers, missionaries and ... -
Experimental explorations of selected women’s innovative poetry written in English, with a focus on ‘the Gurlesque’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores innovative poetry by selected contemporary English-language women writers. In particular, it deliberates how this poetry works between poetic traditions of lyric expressivity ... -
Globality : the double bind of African migrant writing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, I consider the political implications of the aporetic position of contemporary African migrant writing in the arena of world literature. For this type of writing, forever interpellated ... -
The ghost of memory : literary representations of slavery in post-apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines how authors of slave/slave-owner ancestry have constructed slave memory in selected contemporary literary texts on slavery at the Cape. The texts I study include Rayda Jacobs’s The ... -
Ever other : unsettling subjects in contemporary revisions of fairy tales
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Fairy tales create some of the first and most lasting impressions on young minds. In the formative years, they shape world-views, self-perceptions and opinions of ‘others’ in ways that persist into ... -
Narrated histories in selected Kenyan novels, 1963-2013
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the novel‘s potential to interrogate, reimagine and reflect on the histories of nations, particularly the Kenyan nation. It engages with selected Kenyan novels written in both English ...
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