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Ivan Vladislavic and what-what : among writers, readers and ‘other odds, sods and marginals’.
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, 2009)This essay is an experimental quodlibet on some recent Johannesburg imaginative writing. It works outwards from a creative ‘overview’ of Ivan Vladislavić's position in South African literature to a perspective on versions ... -
Joseph Conrad's Victory : a case study of the primary text, selected critical commentary, Natal Senior Certificate English first language examination questions and a selection of candidates' examination responses in 1990, with suggested developments in pedagogical practice.
(1995)No abstract available. -
Journeying beyond Embo : the construction of exile, place and identity in the writings of Lewis.
(2007)A boundary is not that at which something stops, but ...is that from which something begins its presencing. (Bhabha 1994:1) For the purpose of this thesis, the above statement will be central, because implicit in it ... -
"Kasia from Honey street" : a novel in the thriller mode set in contemporary Poland.
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Kendrew Lascelles : selected works : a biographical, thematic and stylistic introduction.
(2011)This dissertation–half of the MA in English Studies by coursework and dissertation–examines selected works of the playwright, poet and novelist, Kendrew Lascelles, who spent his youth and young adulthood in South Africa, ... -
Kof' abantu, kosal' izibongo? : contested histories of Shaka, Phungashe and Zwide in izibongo and izithakazelo.
(2004)In this dissertation, I argue that there is a pressing need in post-apartheid KwaZulu-Natal to re-assess the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century histories of the region from the perspectives of people whose ancestry was ... -
Landscape as metaphor : the interpretation of selected paintings by (Amy) Bertha Everard.
(2002)This dissertation is a study of selected works of the South African landscape painter Amy Bertha Everard (l 873-1965) with the emphasis on discovering relevant means of interpreting her use of landscape as metaphor. In ... -
The language of dreams : a study of transcultural magical realism in four postcolonial texts.
(2005)This research provides an analytical reading of four contemporary novels, in a transcultural study of magical realism and dreams. Two of the novels, Ben Okri's The Famished Road and its sequel Songs of Enchantment, examine ... -
Letters to who : an original cycle of poems that explores the confluence of space, the quotidian and memory in contemporary suburban South Africa.
(2014)Letters to Who consists of an original cycle of poetry which explores the confluence of space, the quotidian and memory. The material in my cycle of poems exposes the dynamic of everyday life and also the role that memory ... -
Liberalism in South African English literature 1948-1990 : a reassessment of the work of Alan Paton and Athol Fugard.
(1996)This thesis examines the concept of liberalism as it informs, and is expressed in, the work of two of the most prominent South African writers during the apartheid era of 1948-1990: Alan Paton and Athol Fugard. The aim ... -
Life-stories : ethnographic portraits of victims of the 2015 xenophobic attacks in Durban - South Africa.
(2016)The borders of the Rainbow nation opened up in 1994 after Nelson Mandela became president. Since that time South Africa is faced with immigration issues which have led to an influx of foreigners in search for a better life ... -
Locating the popular-democratic in South African resistance literature in English, 1970-1990.
(1998)As a conjunctural construct located between politics, society and art, the popular-democratic construes the resistance literature of the 1970s and 1980s as being expressive of an entire social movement to end oppression ... -
Lyric↔L/language: essaying the poetics of contemporary women’s poetry.
(UNISA Press; Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2011)Using the deliberately provocative strategies of “essaying” and “error”, which have become central to the poetry and poetics of women experimental writers such as Kathleen Fraser, Lyn Hejinian and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, ... -
Magic realism and images of the transition of Zakes Mda's Ways of dying (1995)
(2004)No abstract available. -
Magic realism in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995).
(1998)I shall argue in this thesis that Zakes Mda's novels Ways of Dying (l995a) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995b) are magic realist texts that are representative of the hybrid nature of this literary mode. Furthermore ... -
'Malibongwe igama lama khosikazi' ('Let the name of woman be praised') : the negotiation of female subjectivity in Lauretta Ngcobo's And they didn't die.
(1999)In this thesis I attempt to examine the way that rural women in Natal, from the early 1950s to the 1980s, were relegated to the periphery of both white society and black traditional society. Lauretta Ngcobo's second novel ... -
The mapping of urban spaces and identities in current Zimbabwean and South African fiction.
(2003)The dissertation focuses on the mapping of the southern African urban spaces and how it is linked to the urban dwellers' constitution of their identities, agency and subversion of the obtaining bleak and hegemonic conditions ... -
Marguerite Poland's landscapes as sites for identity construction.
(2008)In this dissertation I focus on the life and works of Marguerite Poland and argue that landscapes in her fiction act as sites for identity construction. In my analysis I examine the central characters’ engagement with the ...