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        Biafra as third space : reading the politics of belonging in Nigeria-Biafra civil war literature 

        David, Stephen Temitope (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, ...
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        Biography of a vanished community : South End, Port Elizabeth 

        Hendricks, Shaheed (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 

        Oppelt, Riaan (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 

        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 ...
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        Configuring ‘Maasainess’ : contested textual embodiments 

        Laizer, Neema (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 ...
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        Contemporary fictional representations of sexualities from authoritarian African contexts 

        Mtenje, Asante Lucy (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 

        Goodman, Ralph (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 

        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 ...
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        Discourses of poverty in literature : assessing representations of indigence in post-colonial texts from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe 

        Butale, Phenyo (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 

        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. ...
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        Ecocriticism and the oil encounter : readings from the Niger Delta 

        Aghoghovwia, Philip Onoriode (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 

        Kagai, Ezekiel Kimani (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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        Ever other : unsettling subjects in contemporary revisions of fairy tales 

        Marais, Adri (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 ...
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        Evocations of poverty in selected novels of Meja Mwangi and Roddy Doyle : a study of literary representation 

        Ticha, Ignatius Khan (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 

        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, ...
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        Experimental explorations of selected women’s innovative poetry written in English, with a focus on ‘the Gurlesque’ 

        Simon, Francine (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 ...
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        Films by Kenyan women directors as national allegories 

        Ojiambo, Jacqueline Kubasu (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 ...
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        Focalization schemas, transnational formations and social remittance in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

        Maritim, Eric Cheruiyot (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. ...
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        From Chawton to Oakland : configuring the nineteenth-century domestic in Catherine Hubback's writing 

        Davids, Courtney Laurey (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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        The ghost of memory : literary representations of slavery in post-apartheid South Africa 

        Kasembeli, Serah Namulisa (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 ...

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