Masters Degrees (English)
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Origins, endings and the posthuman imperative in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, I undertake an analysis of five primary texts in the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres, namely: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess’ ... -
A literary analysis of the politics of space in the post-apartheid township
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Townships have come to be a literary trope in South African writing. The representation of this space in various genres of literature therefore is of great interest, as it offers a glimpse into the lived ... -
A kaleidoscopic portrait of human migration in the Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This creative writing project explores the nature of human migration in the context of contemporary South Africa, specifically in the Cape, and examines how movement affects individuals' identities and ... -
On passing – que(e)r(y)ing the appropriation of (cis)gender aesthetics by transgender women
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. -
Incorrigible : resisting heteropatriarchy, the purity of girls, and the epitome of ‘woman’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A study of girlhood in conjunction with the mother-daughter relationship offers a unique lens through which to analyse what it means to be a girl child in certain modern societies, and how a girl child’s ... -
Diamonds are forever : (re)building the archive of a prototypical mining town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please refer to full text for abstract. -
And other scientists : stories of women in science - creating an imaginative archive for marginalised women in science
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please refer to full text for abstract -
Navigating the Grey Zone : East Asian South African selves in three auto/biographical texts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The East Asian presence in South Africa finds its root in the 17th century, but only gained academic attention in the late 20th century. As such, literary texts written by East Asian South ... -
The spectral being of whiteness : exploring the presence of under-examined whiteness through the work of Clarice Lispector
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The lack of critical examination of whiteness and white racial identity in the work of Clarice Lispector (1920 – 1977) is reflective of a larger social and scholarly issue in Brazil and in English scholarship ... -
Considering coloureds : detangling representations of coloured women in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Coloured identity remains a contentious and complex topic in contemporary South African conversations. As an academic area of study, topics based on coloured identity and culture have been written since ... -
In that gathering dusk – wonder, horror, and the transitory pedestrianism of Austerlitz
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I investigate the critical potential inherent in dusk, a motif that functions as the predominant temporal setting of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. My aim is to explore how this pervasive literary ... -
Stigma and the metaphorics of language : reading disease as dis-ease and reclaiming metaphor in selected contemporary South African literature
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary South African literature dealing with HIV/AIDS and depression serves to interrogate and expose the racist ideological foundations for the stigmatic language of metaphor which surrounds these ... -
An analysis of narratology in mainstream film through the application of gender equity critical assessment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gender inequity in the Hollywood film industry highlights the importance of continued feminist filmdiscourse development and analysis. Female representation in film is also assessed through popular media ... -
The fantasy of female sexual freedom in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and in John Logan's Penny Dreadful.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite considerable investigation into the nature of female sexuality and the manner in which it has been portrayed over the years, debate remains regarding what is acceptable and what is not. Furthermore, ... -
The afterlife of the Victorian marriage plot in neo-Victorian fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The neo-Victorian novel is known for exposing the hidden sex lives of what Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1964) and, following ... -
Born with the caul : a fictocritical revisiting of race-d and queer(ed) his/stories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Using fictocriticism, a mode that b(l)ends creative and critical writing, in this thesis I am led on a winding journey in which I explore elusive, intersectional accounts of various kinds of queer ... -
The representation of Egypt in Ahdaf Soueif's The map of love
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis studies the way in which Ahdaf Soueif portrays her country, Egypt, in her second novel, The Map of Love (1999). The Map of Love is a historical novel with a bifurcated plotline set at the ... -
The metaphorics of erotic pursuit and sexual violence in classical mythology and its transformations by women poets
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The portrayal of heterosexual desire in classical myth is often ambivalent, without clear distinctions between seduction and sexual violence. The sexual exploits of male gods like Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon ... -
Graphic testimonies : voicing the unutterable in auto/biographics of war
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the early 1980s graphic narratives (novels) have developed into a nuanced and complex medium of creative expression. Experimentation with aesthetics, form and narrative content have resulted in a ... -
Poetics of passage in modernist reconfigurations of Odysseus
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While the prevalence of the figure of Odysseus in Western literature has been much studied, insufficient attention has been paid to its associations with epistemology, and to the semiotic potential of the ...
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