Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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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, ... -
Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels
(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 ... -
The making and remaking of gender relations in Tanzanian fiction
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Narrative enablement : constructions of disability in contemporary African imaginaries
(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 ... -
Nation in crisis : alternative literary representations of Zimbabwe Post-2000
(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 ... -
Negotiating (trans)national identities in Ugandan literature
(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, ... -
Past (pre)occupations, present (dis)locations : the nineteenth century restoried in texts from/about South Africa, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
(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, ... -
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 ... -
Politics of the family in contemporary East and West African women's writing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores narratives by African women from East and West Africa. It specifically examines how twenty-first century African women writers from the selected regions represent the institution of ... -
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 ... -
Praxis and/as critique in the translations of the oeuvre of Ingrid Winterbach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I investigate how aesthetics, politics and ethics intersect as material flows in translation, and how these actualise in the oeuvre of Lettie Viljoen/Ingrid Winterbach. With the ... -
Prizing African literature : awards and cultural value
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the centrality of international literary awards in African literary production with an emphasis on the Caine Prize for African Writing (CP) and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize ...
