Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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Unavowable communities : mapping representational excess in South African literary culture, 2001-2011
(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
(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
(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" ... -
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 ... -
Womens historical fiction after feminism : discursive reconstructions of the Tudors in contemporary literature
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Zimbabwe women writers from 1950 to the present : re-creating gender images
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean women as writers and thus on women as producers, contesters and negotiators of gendered images, and the ways in which they write gender identities in and of the nation. I ...
