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A cross-linguistic analysis of finite rasing constructions.
(2011) Ademola-Adeoye, Feyisayo Fehintola.; Zeller, Jochen Klaus.
This thesis provides and discusses a comprehensive collection of empirical data that show that many languages of the world manifest long A-movement of the subjects of embedded finite clauses to the subject position (Hyperraising) or object position (Hyper-ECM) of the main clause. The main theoretical claim of the thesis is that all these instances of long A-movement leave behind resumptive pronouns and should therefore be analysed on a par with related Copy Raising and Copy ECM constructions. My thesis therefore demonstrates that resumption is not restricted to Abar movement contexts, but is also attested in A-movement constructions. Instead of the various language-particular analyses previously proposed in the literature, the thesis focuses on those aspects of long A-movement that all respective constructions in the different languages have in common and therefore provides a unified crosslinguisic analysis of long A-movement constructions. An important empirical generalisation, first noted by Ura (1994), which is empirically supported by the data discussed in this thesis, is that if a language has Hyperraising or Hyper-ECM, it is also a pro-drop language. On the basis of this generalisation, it is argued that Hyperraising and Hyper-ECM constructions involve the use of resumptive pro in the embedded subject position, while languages with Copy Raising and Copy ECM use overt pronouns. Apart from this difference, it is argued that these Amovement constructions are identical in all crucial respects. Furthermore, it is claimed that agreement inside the embedded finite clauses from which long A-movement takes place is indicative of the ability of embedded T to license nominative case on the embedded subject. Hence, no deviation from standard Minimalist assumptions is required. It is suggested that the role of the resumptive subject pronoun is to receive the case assigned by the probing T-head inside the embedded clause. It is also argued that it is the existence of a resumptive pronoun which causes the coreferential subject DP to be without case, which in turn creates a context in which long A-movement of this DP becomes both necessary and possible. This analysis is based on the idea that at first merge, the raised subject is merged with the null/overt resumptive pronoun in the embedded subject position to form one vii complex constituent (which is known in the literature as a „big? DP). While the pronoun remains in the embedded subject position to absorb the case in the embedded finite clause, the raised subject is attracted into the matrix subject position to absorb the case in the matrix clause.
Aantekeninge by Skakering (1991) : 'n omgewingsopvoedingsbenadering tot die gedigteks.
(2001) Motaung, Ruth Mathomane.; Reddy, Vasu.
This article has as focus an environmental education analysis of ten selected poems from the book Skakering (Opperman and Coetzee 1991) to associate the problem of environmental education with the teaching of a humanities subject like Afrikaans, and specifically in the light of the poem as text. It has as its aim the teaching of a genre, to relate in this regard the single text (the poem text) to the environment and environmentally associated problems. In this respect an approach which is aimed at selected texts in Skakering (Opperman and Coetzee 1991) shall possibly accentuate both teachers and pupils' relationship with nature. This article will concentrate on the following: a definition of environmental education as phenomenon which links up the concept ecology, general overview of the important and relevant sources, a theoretical explanation of the concept environmental education, a brief discussion of existing studies that pays attention to the environment and environmental education in the literature, the analysis of the contents of poems that represent certain environmental problems, and an awareness of the pedagogical implications for the teacher. OPSOMMING Hierdie artikel het as fokus 'n ' omgewingsopvoedingsanalise van tien geselekteerde gedigte uit die bundel Skakering (Oppenman en Coetzee 1991 ) om die probleem van omgewingsopvoeding in verband te bring met die onderrig van 'n geesteswetenskaplike vak 5005 Afrikaans. en spesifiek aan die hand van die gedigteks. Oit het as doel die onderrig van 'n genre, om in die verband die enkelteks (die gedigteks) in verband te bring met die omgewing en omgewingsverwante probleme. In hierdie opsig sal 'n benadering wat op geselekteerde tekste in Skakering (Opperman en Coetzee 1991 ) gerig is, beide ondervvysers en leerlinge se verhouding met die natuur aksentueer. In hierdie artikel word op die volgende gekonsentreer: die omskrywing van omgewingsopvoeding as verskynsel wat aansluit by die konsep ekologie, In oorsig van die belangrike en retevante bronne, 'n toeretiese uiteensetting van die konsep omgewingsopvoedingsbenadering, 'n kortlikse bespreking van bestaande studies wat aandag gee aan die omgewing en omgewingsopvoeding in die letterkunde, 'n analise van die inhoud van gedigte wat bepaalde omgewingsopvoedingsprobleme representeer, en 'n bewustheid van die pedagogiese implikasies vir die onderwyser.
The African languages in South African education 2009–2011.
(Cambridge University Press., 2012) Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary.
No abstract available.
An annotated and glossed English translation of memory, memorisation and memorisers in Ancient Galilee by Marcel Jousse : a study of the origin, nature, analysis and recording of mnemonic rhythmo-stylistic texts.
(2000) Conolly, Joan Lucy.; Sienaert, Edgard Richard.
This study focuses on the work of Marcel Jousse, the 20th century French anthropologist, linguist, educationist and theologian who discovered and developed the Anthropology of Language, the study of human memory and expression, and their mutual transation. As central underpinning theory of the Anthropology of Language, Jousse identified the anthropology of Geste and Rhythm manifest in the Oral Style as gestual-visual/oral-aural mnemonic. In Memory, Memorisation and Memorisers in Ancient Galilee, the account of the transmission of the Besorah-Gospels in the intra-ethnic and extra-ethnic Galilean-Hellenic diaspora. Jousse demonstrates (I) the fidelity and accommodating fluidity of mnemonic Oral Style expression as support of human memory; (2) the role of the Metourgeman-Sunergos as interpreter-translator and scripter of the Besorah-Gospels; (3) the role of the Counting-necklaces constructed by Kepha-Peter and Shaoul-Paul as ordering and mnemonic support in the recounting the Deeds and Sayings of the Rabbi Ieshou"a of Galilee. In this thesis three kinds of translation are addressed. (I) It is about the translation of invisible and visceral memory into the visible and audible expression thereof in speech and movement for the purposes of learning, understanding and recording of the oral socio-cultural archive: Stylology manifest in rhythmo-stylistics, rhythmo-pedagogy and rhythmo-catechism; (2) it is about the translation of speech and movement into writing of two kinds: the recording of dictated texts in writing, (Memory, Memorisation and Memorisers in Ancient Galilee) and the putting-into- writing of memorised formulaic recitation, viz. rhythmo-stylistics, rhythmo-pedagogy and rhythmo-catechism; (3) it is about the translation of a specific and specialised technical texts from one (kind of) language to another: Memory, Memorisation and Memorisers in Ancient Galilee and Glossary of Joussea Concepts, Terms and Usage. The products of this study are: (I) a critical investigation and contextualised account of the perspective of Marcel Jousse on the operation of the invisible visceral metaphor called memory into the visible and audible expression thereof in speech and movement for the purposes of learning, understanding and recording of the oral socio-cultural archive in rhythmo-mnemonic expression (2) a proposed work-in-progress model for the presentation and analysis mnemonic Oral-style texts, viz. rhythmo-stylistics, rhythmo-pedagogy and rhythmo-catechism; (3) an annotated translation of Dernieres Dictees Memory, Memorisation and Memorisers in Ancient Galilee; (4) a glossary of specialised technical terms to be used in the interpretation of the works of Marcel Jousse compiled from Jousse's texts already translated into English: Jousse developed a specialised and complex terminology to explain his view of the origin and operation of mnemonic human expression. The Glossary documents this terminology, and demonstrates the translation of the concepts, and their usage by Jousse. This study is presented in three parts: Part One: Translations on and at the oral-literate interface; Part Two: Memory, Memorisation and Memorisers in Ancient Galilee - an annotated translation; Part Three: Glossary of Joussean Concepts Terms and Usage .
The anthropology of geste and the eucharistic rite of the Roman mass.
(1994) Fanning, Rosalie Patricia.; Sienaert, Edgard Richard.; Allard, Maxime.
For sixty-five years hardly anyone in the English-speaking world was aware of the anthropological theories of Marcel Jousse, a twentieth century Jesuit scholar. In 1990, Jousse's seminal work, Le style oral rythmique et mnemotechnique chez les verbo-moteurs. (The rhythmic and mnemotechnique oral style of the verbo-motors), was translated into English and given the name The Oral Style. His anthropologie du geste, called in this study the anthropology of geste, presented his discovery of the universal anthropological laws governing human expression: mimism, bilateralism and formulism. Jousse had sought to understand the anthropological roots of oral style, in particular the phenomenal memory of oral style peoples. In this dissertation, Jousse's theories are summarised and his anthropological laws are used to determine whether three eucharistic prayers of the Roman rite contain elements of oral style expression. The Roman Canon, Eucharistic Prayer 1 and Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 are set out in binary and ternary balancings. An attempt is made to show that written style expression, an inheritance from the Greeks, houses in its extraordinary complexity the very oral style elements it appears to have superseded. The assertion made is that written style, with its predilection for subordination, actually conserves, preserves and perpetuates oral style balancings, not only in the simple sentence (what Jousse calls the propositional geste), but also in clauses, phrases, words, and sound devices. Support is given to T. J. Talley's view that the Jewish nodeh lekah (thanksgiving) and not the berakah (blessing) is the prayer source that influenced the structure of the early Christians' eucharist (thanksgiving in Greek). The expressions of thanksgiving that are a distinguishing feature of anaphoras from the 1st century AD onwards, continue to shape the eucharistic prayers today. This is offered as one reason why, in a reconstruction of Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 presented at the end of Chapter 5, it is possible to balance one recitative with another, and the recitation of one prayer component with another. The dissertation concludes by recommending that oral studies of the Christian liturgies of East and West be pursued as they have much to contribute to the orality-literacy debate not only in the matter of liturgical language but also in gaining an appreciation of other gestes of worship.
Audacious black female heroes in speculative and Afrofuturist fiction from the Nigerian diaspora.
(2021) Borain, Bernice Cynthia.; Stobie, Cheryl.
In four recent speculative novels from the Nigerian diaspora, The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (2013 [2005]), Who Fears Death (2018 [2011a]) and The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015), and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2018), the main characters are represented as displaying audacity and courage. These qualities have aspirational value for young black women in particular. The genre of feminist Afro-Gothic and Afrofuturist fiction has extended the repertoire of its relevant womanist concerns since its origins, demonstrating the developing emancipatory potential of the genre, as portrayed in the analysed novels. Speculative fiction generally allows the reader to imagine a future where oppressive structures are overturned, and more specifically, Afro-Gothic fiction foregrounds the predicament of the black protagonist overcoming otherworldly dark forces, while Afrofuturism liberates the black protagonist by presenting her as the hero; in the selected novels she is represented as the literal and metaphoric bringer of light. The thesis employs close textual analysis in applying its focal theories of speculative fiction and womanism, based on Alice Walker’s emphasis on the audacity exhibited by young womanists. The womanist hero in Afrofuturist texts paves the way for a future when the young readers of these novels are encouraged to become the strong, audacious leaders of tomorrow through engaging with narratives exploring such possibilities. Similarly, Afro-Gothicism has expanded the genre of the Gothic, which originally presented Africa one-dimensionally as a dark continent being conquered by a white male hero, to explore the experience of young people of colour in the diaspora, navigating and reconciling the tension between African and Western cultural conventions that create cultural dissonance. A just ending is evident in each novel, with the womanist hero emerging as redeemed, and as the saviour or hero figure. Encountering these novels enables young black women to see themselves as heroes, and overthrows the single story that the literary canon often perpetuates, not just for these young women, but for other readers as well.
A balanced reading approach for grade one and two English L1 and EAL learners.
(2003) Gounden, Janakie.; Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary.
This study reports on a balanced reading approach (BRA) designed for a multi-cultural classroom, including both Ll ( first language) and EAL ( English additional language ) Foundation phase learners. The purpose of this study is to explore how interactive reading approaches develop literacy skills for six African learners. The teacher as researcher developed a theoretical model, which informed her pedagogic practices in the balanced reading programme. She also engaged in action research to gain an insight into what teaching approaches, methodologies and resources make EAL learners learn more effectively. This information was disseminated to other educator colleagues. This study also examines parents' views on the BRA and their perceptions of the reading process. Data was drawn from the following sources: teacher observations and interactions with learners, semi-structured interviews with parents of learners, analysis of learner assessment and parental questionnaires. It was concluded that a balanced reading approach which values mother tongue instruction in a supportive learning environment enhances the self concepts and cognitive growth of EAL learners. This study has also demonstrated that collaborative active learning, extensive independent reading, language experience approach, home support , community support, high levels of intrinsic learner motivation and high teacher expectations of learners can positively impact on the EAL learners' academic progress and social growth at school. Keywords: Foundation phase English Additional Language Balanced Reading Approach III Additive Bilingualism Communicative Language Teaching Whole Language
Black female power in Dudu Busani-Dube’s novels Hlomu-the wife, Zandile-the resolute and Naledi-his love.
(2020) Memela, Sinenhlanhla Felicia.; Mkhize, Thulani.
This dissertation examines the power of black females in Dudu Busani-Dube’s novels Hlomu-the wife, Zandile-the resolute and Naledi-his love. The study also examines Black diamond by Zakes Mda and Hunger eats a man by Nkosinathi Sithole to evaluate their representation of black female characters. South African literature has a pessimistic portrayal of black female characters, and the representation of black female characters seems to be that of victimisation in various forms. The black female body has been a symbol of victimisation in literary textual representations. The study briefly looks at the background of how black females such as Sarah Baartman were victimised, both physically and in textual representation. It then explores the activism of females in South African history. Thereafter, the themes of power, motherhood, conflict and sexual love are analysed in detail. The research highlights the power and strength that black women possess as represented in Busani-Dube’s work. Previous research studies focused on women as a homogenous group negating the cultural and racial differences of black women. Black women’s vigour and courage call for scholarship thought and consideration. The study aims to affirm black women in literature and highlight their victories. The research methodology of the study is textual analysis, and the theoretical framework is African feminism. The analysis of the study demonstrates that black women are not only victims as they are generally portrayed in literature, but they are heroines and competent women who require positive recognition in South African literature and Africa as a whole. The aim of the study is to depict that black women have positive traits worth academic engagement.
Brothers in arms? : a linguistic analysis of four documents from the UDW "fees crisis" of May 2000.
(2002) Consterdine, Richard.; Geslin, Nicole.
This dissertation is a sociolinguistic study that applies the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Grammar to written discourse generated in the context of student unrest at a South African tertiary educational institution in May 2000. The unrest was triggered by management's de-registration of students for non-payment of fees due, and hence the local press dubbed it the "fees crisis". Four one-page texts, each representing a major participant in the events of the "fees crisis", were selected for detailed analysis. The principal finding from the four analyzed texts is that they exhibit widely divergent discoursal styles that vividly express equally divergent ideologies and attitudes. Some of these ideological schisms are caused by the immediate situational context, where the groupings are competing for access to and control of resources, or to gain strategic advantages in a power struggle. The four texts are divided equally into two discoursal types: two employ the hegemonic, 'schooled' literacy; the other two use the marginalized, topic associative, oral literacy based style. This illustrates the radically different contexts of culture that inform the ideologies of the four participant groupings. Power struggle is inherent in all discoursal exchanges, but it is an element made especially prominent in discourse by the uncertainties associated with social transition such as that taking place currently in postapartheid South Africa. The frequency of the word "community" and its shifting semantic load in the four texts has been clearly demonstrated to encapsulate the vacillations in the groups' self-identities and inter-group relations already suggested by the broader stylistic variations between the four discourses. Uncertainty breeds fear, and like other primates, hominids display the greatest aggression when afraid. Discoursal analysis of the four "fees crisis" texts uncovers the reasons for the intense affect which characterized the events of the May 2000 "fees crisis".
The burden of affliction: a literary analysis of representations of HIV-positive women and girls in selected southern african texts.
(2022) Cherop, Cathryne.; Mkhize, Thulani.
This thesis proceeds from the understanding that literature is the mirror of society, reflecting problematic features, failures to provide social justice, and attempts to live with dignity and hope. Statistics show that Zimbabwe and South Africa have among the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the world, with a prevalence of 18.9% and 12.7% in South Africa and Zimbabwe respectively, of adults afflicted, and women are much more vulnerable to the infection than men. Literary responses give voice to the perception and impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. This thesis examines the fictional representation of HIV-positive women in a sample of four selected Zimbabwean and South African novels. The literary texts that are examined are: Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Lutanga Shaba’s Secrets of a Woman’s Soul (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift (2008). The study strives to examine the plight of HIV-positive women through an analysis of the characterisation and the authors’ representations of socio-economic and cultural burdens suffered by these women, as well as their coping mechanisms. My analysis of the agency of women characters in the chosen stories is underpinned by the theory of African feminism, which engages with, critiques and develops Western feminism, hinged on African women’s hostility to Western domination and their heritage in African beliefs and cultures. Lastly, the theoretical concepts of stigma, shame and sexuality will be explored.
Cattle praises of the Kwamthethwa area of Empangeni, Kwazulu-Natal as a reflection of some socio-cultural norms and values of the area.
(2000) Mathaba, Jetros Muzomusha.; Sienaert, Edgard Richard.; Conolly, Joan Lucy.
No abstract available.
Challenges in cross-cultural translation : a discussion of S.E.K. Mqhayi's Ityala Lamawele.
(2002) Scina, Engelbrecht Mxozolo.; Attwell, David.
This thesis is structured into four sections. The first section is a brief statement on the choice of the text chosen for the purpose of translation. Ityala Lamawele is one of the old and classic Xhosa texts and after seeing some translated texts either from Xhosa to English or English to Xhosa such as Uhambo Lomhambi (The Pilgrim's Progress) Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors), Akusekho Konwaba (No Longer at Ease) and having not seen any translation of Ityala Lamawele, I felt an attempt at translating Ityala Lamawele was long overdue. This first section also looks at the theoretical aspects of translation that will inform the translation of ltyala Lamawele. The second section is the actual translation (the process and the product) of selected extracts which deal specifically and exclusively with the case of the twins. Though the translation of the whole text is not a remote possibility or consideration, for the purpose of this thesis, selected extracts will be dealt with. The third section of this thesis is the reflection on and the discussion of the choices I have made. This section looks at the process of translating ltyala Lamawele, the challenges and obstacles that I have come across, the way I have put and expressed issues and why.
Confluences of Lithoko, religious and traditional beliefs and western poetry in modern Sesotho poetry (MSP) : an intertextual perspective.
(2015) Maimane, Ketlalemang Clement.; Mathonsi, Nhlanhla Naphtal.; Zulu, Ncebo Sibonelo.
From an intertextual perspective, this study analyses the lithoko, religious beliefs and practices and western poetry confluences in modern Sesotho poetry. In this analysis, modern Sesotho poetry texts covering a period of seventy-nine years (79) from 1931 to 2010 have been selected. Of the utmost importance in the analysis are the intertextual manifestations in modern Sesotho poetry. These include the lithoko oralformulaic style in modern Sesotho poetry which focuses on form, structure and content. The study also looks into echoes of texts indicative of religious beliefs and practices (both local and foreign) in modern Sesotho poetry, the host-parasite relationship between Western poetry and modern Sesotho poetry, the emerging trends and the evaluation of modern Sesotho poetry in relation to its poeticness or literariness. In order to address the above intentions of the study, the qualitative library approach was employed to critically examine the identified intertextual features from the population of twelve (12) modern Sesotho poetry texts selected through both the cluster and purposive sampling techniques. The following are the findings of the study on the issues investigated: modern Sesotho poetry is an intertext as texts from lithoko Christian, traditional beliefs and practices as well as western poetry are present in it at varying levels of form structure, content and traditional images in virtually recognizable forms as Barthes (1981: 39) asserts that the literary position of any text is an intertext in which other texts are present in varying levels and more or less recognizable forms. Both proto, transitional and open forms attributed to lithoko and western poetry are present in modern Sesotho poetry. Modern Sesotho poetry has also been found to have diverse emergent trends not only in terms of structural forms but also in content and linguistic devices in the form of traditional imagery. As an intertext, modern Sesotho poetry has emerged to be poetic considering aspects of poetic function and poetic language as elements of poetry in the evaluation of its poeticness. The study concludes that modern Sesotho poetry is an intertext which is a text of convergence where the presence of the four predecessors is manifested at varying levels and in more or less recognizable forms.
Contrapuntal textures: 'Othello' as postcolonial palimpsest.
(1997) Bennell, Maurice Vincent.
No abstract provided.
Étude comparative sur le rôle de la langue et du lieu dans les œuvres autofictionnelles de deux auteures postcoloniales, Nina Bouraoui et Marita van der Vyver.
(2018) O’Neill, Charlene.; Alant, Jacob Willem.
This dissertation compares and contrasts Nina Bouraoui and Marita van der Vyver, exploring the role of language and place in their quest for identity and a feeling of belonging. It provides three key theoretical insights into the role of language and place in their inner journeys from past (Africa) to present (France). The first is Edward Saïd’s concept of Orientalism and the claim that the North considers the people of the South to be inferior. The second theoretical insight is Bhabha’s claim that post-colonial authors construct an interstice in which colonizer and colonized co-exist and build hybrid identities. The third is Derrida’s argument that language and culture are imposed on us, producing a permanent state of alienation that cannot be expressed in the language of the Imperial Other, the Metropolis. This research concludes that Bouraoui and Van der Vyver use autofiction to bridge the gap between their past and present Self. Bouraoui is the Eternal Outsider. Her mind and body are the sites of her eternal identity crisis: trapped in the interstice between Algeria and France, between the guidance of her Algerian father and the protection of her French mother, between the language of her childhood and her adulthood, and between her sex, her sexuality and her gender. In contrast, Van der Vyver identifies herself as Afrikaans and does not see her mother tongue as an obstacle to self-exploration and self-expression. Her autofiction depicts her as a Boer in exile. She is critical of gender relations rather than of apartheid. Both writers on the other hand use their bedrooms as an interstice in their inner journeys through space and time. Both of them are alienated from French, the language of the Other. Both love Africa. Neither belongs to the continent.
Etude de trois personnages féminins réalisee á la lumière du rôle que joue la dépression dans quelques oeuvres choisies de Marguerite Duras.
(1993) Beck-Kaltenrieder, Antoinette Marguerite.
Abstract available in PDF.
Examining girlhoods in KwaZulu-Natal through “coming of age” conventions in selected Bildungsroman.
(2020) Adam, Farzanah.; Mkhize, Thulani.
Presented chiefly as an endeavour within the field of post-colonial feminist scholarship in South Africa, this study navigates the emerging terrain of girlhood studies. It explores the changes and inclusions in the novel of development, particularly the narrative arc of girl protagonists in this genre. It examines continuities and discontinuities between girlhood and womanhood through selected texts within feminist studies. This study considers how different post-apartheid home environments shape the gendered experiences of girls in just one province of South Africa. The Story of Maha by Summaya Lee (2007) is set in an affluent Muslim suburb in central Durban where an orphaned, mixed-race girl is raised. ZP Dala’s What about Meera (2015) visits the protagonist’s traumatic childhood on a sugarcane farm on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, as the offspring of indentured labourers. The Paper House by Dalena Theron (2015), focuses on girlhood within an Afrikaner family: a protagonist living with her homosexual father and his partner in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The primary texts show how a girlchild’s quest for identity and belonging is inextricably linked to issues arising from her home life. Drawing on the hermeneutical interpretations of the novels, the voices of South African girls are presented. Using a theoretical framework that intersects the aforementioned postcolonial literature with belonging and trauma, this study presents the complexities of belonging — exploring identity, trauma and the social concept of ordentlikheid (respectability) within South African girlhood studies. Key thinkers in the aforementioned theoretical concepts include Cathy Caruth (2016); Mary Celeste Kearney (2009); Claudia Mitchell (2016); and Christi van der Westhuizen (2018, 2019). Each of these concepts is explored independently: chapter one discusses the Bildungsroman genre and then expands on the extent family and culture play in shaping the girl child in The Story of Maha. Chapter two explains how trauma, including physical violence and internalised aggression shapes the protagonist from What about Meera. Chapter three discusses the effects of (breaking) generational prejudice and the trope of “good girlhood”, especially in the Afrikaans community under study in The Paper House. Key expansions explore how the postcolonial female Bildungsroman is an extension of the genre rather than an antithesis. The question of “good girlhood” (Van der Westhuizen 2018) and the “defamiliarisation” of trauma (de Finney et al. 2011) within the postcolonial female Bildungsroman genre contribute to scholarship on South African girlhoods within the Bildungsroman ‘novel-of-development’ genre.
Exploring the role of gender in the depiction of Utopia in selected novels.
(2015) Naudé, Michelle Jane.; Stobie, Cheryl.
Abstract available in print version.
Fabricated honesty: an original collection of poems, including a critical examination of the impact of twentieth century confessional poetry on my writing.
(2018) Govender, Kimentha.
This dissertation consists of two sections: a creative section and a theoretical section. The first section of this paper will be the creative section which consists of a collection of 40 original poems that can be generally described as confessional poems. These poems explore and deal with personal relationships, memory and self- reflection. The second section of this paper will be the theoretical section and will consist of three chapters. Chapter One explores confessional poetry. It will look at the history of confessional poetry around the 1960s as well as how it arose as a genre. I will briefly look at the work of Boston poet Robert Lowell in his most famous work Life Studies and explore how he had become a catalyst for confessional poetry. Chapter Two will explore select poems by Sylvia Plath and what made her work so influential at a time when confessional poetry started to be recognised as a genre. I will also compare some of my poems to those of Plath to see how my work fits into this genre. Plath and my work share similarities in style, tone and topics such as loss, and interpersonal family relationships. Chapter three explores South African contemporary poetry and the work of South African contemporary poet Joan Metelerkamp and why she is considered to be a confessional poet. I will also analyse some of her poetry and compare her work to that of my own to find any common ground.
Indlelakubuka yabafundi nabazali ngokufundwa nokufundiswa kohlelo lolimi lokuqala lokwengeza lwesiZulu esikoleni esixube izinhlanga e-Vryheid.
(2021) Mhlungu, Siphosenkosi Zeblon.; Dlamini, Phindile Dorothy.; Ngcobo, Tholakele Ruth.
IsiZulu singezinye zezilimi ezihamba phambili esifundazweni saKwaZulu- Natali. UHulumeni wahlaba ikhwelo lokuthi zonke izikole ezaziwa ngama x- Model C zifunde izilimi zaboHlanga. Lokhu kwakuncike ekutheni yiluphi ulimi olukhulunywa kahle kakhulu esifundazweni ngasinye. NjengaKwaZulu Natali nje kukhulunywa isiZulu naseEastern Cape kukhulunywa isiXhosa. Lolu cwaningo luqhutshwe esifundeni saseZululand esikoleni esixube izinhlanga esiseVryheid. Abantwana abangamaZulu bangena ezikoleni esezaziwa njengama x- Model C ngenhloso yokuthola imfundo engcono. Ulimi lokufunda nokufundisa kulezi zikole isiNgisi. IsiNgisi siba yisibelele kusukela enkulisa kuze kube semazingeni athe thuthu. Iningi lalaba bafundi liqhamuka edolobheni eVryheid nasemalokishini akhele leli dolobha. Iningi lalaba bafundi laqala imfundo yalo yamabanga aphansi ezikoleni zabamhlophe ezikhuluma ulimi lwesiNgisi nesiBhunu. Abanye babantwana abangamaZulu kulesi sikole bakhule bejwayele ukukhuluma ulimi lwesiNgisi nesiBhunu. Ucwaningo beluhlose ukubheka indlelakubuka yabafundi nabazali ngokufundwa nokufundiswa kohlelo lolimi Lokuqala Lokwengeza lwesiZulu esikoleni esixube izinhlanga esiseVryheid. Lolu cwaningo lusebenzise indlela exubile yekhwalithethivu kanye nekhwantithethivu, ngoba izimpendulo ziphinde zahunyushwa ngezinombolo ukuqoqa ulwazi. Lolu cwaningo lusebenzise ipharadayimu yekhrithikhali. Lolu cwaningo lusebenzise insizakuhlaziya yeHegemony kaGramsci, 1971. Ulwazi locwaningo luqoqwe lwahlaziywa ngokwezindikimba ezivezwe ngezihlokwana. Ukuqoqwa kwalo kuhlanganisa imibuzo esakuhleleka, izingxoxo ezisakuhleleka, ukuqoqa ulwazi ngokubukela kanye nokuhluzwa kwamadokhumenti. Bonke ababambiqhaza bavela esikoleni esixube izinhlanga esisesifundeni saseZululand eVryheid. Ucwaningo luveza ukuthi abafundi besiZulu ulimi Lokuqala Lokwengeza babhekene nezinselelo eziningi ezahlukene. Ukwentuleka kwesisekelo solwazi lwesiZulu njengesifundo, ukwakhelwa umkhanya kwesiZulu kanye nokungakhulunywa kwesiZulu esicwengekile emakhaya nasesikoleni.Ucwaningo luveze izimpendulo ezingezinhle ngendlela abafundi abasibuka ngayo isiZulu. Ucwaningo luveze ukuthi abazali bancamela isiNgisi kunesiZulu. Ucwaningo luveze izindlela ezahlukene zokuqhakambisa isiNgisi ngaphezu kwesiZulu. Nakuba kunjalo ucwaningo lunikeze umhlahlandlela nezincomo ezizokwazi ukuhlangabezana nezingqinamba ezivezwe ababambiqhaza. Amagama amqoka: IsiZulu ulimi Lokuqala Lokwengeza, Abazali, Abafundi, Indlelakubuka.

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