Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English) by Title
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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 ... -
A theoretical model for a Fang-French-English Specialized multi-volume school dictionary
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)The policy to preserve and implement mother tongues as medium of education in Gabon will lead to the establishing of a bilingual education system. This system will involve mother tongues and French, the official language. ... -
Trauma in selected Eastern African fiction and life writing on Civil Wars, 2000 - 2014
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study draws attention to and explores the portrayal of civil war in East African fictional and autobiographical works. Specifically, it examines the various and distinct ways in which East African ... -
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 ...
