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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From Chawton to Oakland : configuring the nineteenth-century domestic in Catherine Hubback's writing
(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 ... -
Encountering strange lands : migrant texture in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study engages with the complete novelistic oeuvre of the Zanzibari-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose fiction is dedicated to the theme of migration. With each novel, however, Gurnah deploys ... -
Ecocriticism and the oil encounter : readings from the Niger Delta
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study seeks to understand the ways that environmental concerns and the phenomenon of oil production in the Niger Delta are captured in contemporary literary representations. In the thesis, I enlist ...
