Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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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 ... -
The representation of African humanism in the narrative writings of Es'kia Mphahlele
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)The introductory chapter of this thesis – in which I place Mphahlele's works within the Afrocentric, postcolonial theoretical context within which he wrote – consists of three sections that explain the three different ways ... -
The representation of women in the works of three South African novelists of the transition
(Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)The dissertation focuses on literary representation of female characters in selected novels by three particular South African writers working within the transitional phase (from the formal ending of apartheid up to the ... -
Representations of troubled childhoods in selected post-1990 African fiction in English
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores representations of troubled childhoods in post-1990 African narratives. Defining troubled childhoods as the experiences of children exposed to different forms of violations including ... -
Reza de Wet (1952-2012) : life and works
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Reza Wet, one of South Africa’s most awarded playwrights, reputed, both locally and internationally, for her prodigious body of work, passed away in 2012 and yet her life as a writer, actress, director ... -
Should I stay or should I go : Zimbabwes white writing, 1980 to 2011
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis finds its epistemological basis in two related motives: the re-conceptualisation of white writing in Zimbabwe as a sub-category of Zimbabwean literature, and the recognition of white narratives ... -
South African female subjectivity (1868-1977): life writing, the agentive "I" and recovering stories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the formation of white female subjectivity in the life writing of three South African women, penned between 1868 and 1977. The subjects are: Betty Molteno (1852-1927), Hettie ...
