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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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        Globality : the double bind of African migrant writing 

        Shabangu, Mohammad (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 ...
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        Historicising borders : studies in Nigerian novels 

        Okolie, Mary JanePatrick Nwakaego (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 ...
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        How I lost my mother : care, death, and the politics of invisibility 

        Swartz, Leslie (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 ...
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        Imaginaries of oceanic histories in oral and written texts from the Kenyan Coast 

        Kosgei, Jauquelyne (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 ...
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        Imagining the city in Zimbabwean literature 1949 to 2009 

        Muchemwa, Kizito Zhiradzago (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 ...
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        Institutionalised homosexuality in South Africa: queering same-sex desire 

        Fortuin, Bernard Nolen (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 ...
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        Interregnum in Providence : the fragmentation of narrative as quest in the prose fictions of Heman Melville 

        De Villiers, Dawid Willem,1972- (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 ...
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        Intimating a female archive : rendering the wounds of family trauma 

        Van Heerden, Lorinda (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 ...
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        Intra- and inter-continental migrations and diaspora in contemporary African fiction 

        Moudouma Moudouma, Sydoine (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 ...
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        Language limits : the dissolution of the lyric subject in experimental print and performance poetry 

        Pieterse, Annel (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, ...
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        Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels 

        Hale, Frederick (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)
        ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of various historical novels which dealt to a greater or lesser degree with the Great Trek and were written between the 1840s and the 1930s in Dutch, Afrikaans ...
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        The making and remaking of gender relations in Tanzanian fiction 

        Wakota, John (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
        ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the fictional representation of gender relations in novels set during five historical periods in Tanzania – the pre-colonial, colonial, nationalism, Ujamaa, and the current neoliberalism ...
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        Myth and counterfactuality in diasporic African women’s novels 

        Kwanya, Joseph Michael Amolo (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 ...
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        Narrated histories in selected Kenyan novels, 1963-2013 

        Yenjela, David Wafula (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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        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 ...
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        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 ...
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        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, ...
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        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, ...

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