Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
