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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Diasporic imaginaries : memory and negotiation of belonging in East African and South African Indian narratives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores selected Indian narratives that emerge in South Africa and East Africa between 1960 and 2010, focusing on representations of migrations from the late 19th century, with the ... -
Confession, embodiment and ethics in the poetry of Antjie Krog and Joan Metelerkamp
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the work of two contemporary South African poets, Antjie Krog and Joan Metelerkamp. Through an analytical-discursive engagement with their work, it explores the relationship between ... -
C. Louis Leipoldt and the making of a South African modernism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: C. Louis Leipoldt had, in his lifetime and after his death, a celebrated reputation as an important Afrikaans poet in South Africa. He remains most remembered for his contribution to the growth of Afrikaans ...
