Browsing English, Media and Performance Studies by Title
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A handful of spaghetti : entanglements of space, place and identity in the works of Imraan Coovadia.
(2014)Durban born novelist, essayist, and academic, Imraan Coovadia has been described by Jane Rosenthal as “turning into a national treasure as a novelist” (Coovadia 2012a: cover). Despite winning numerous prizes including the ... -
History, identity, representation : public-private-community partnerships and the Batlokoa community.
(2013)This dissertation explores how a public-private-community partnership impacts on the operation of a community-owned Lodge. The case study focuses on the Batlokoa community at the Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge establishment, ... -
"A hot thing" representations of slavery, identity, naming and mothering violence in selected Toni Morrison texts.
(2016)This dissertation explores themes of identity, naming, mothering violence and absent fathers in selected Toni Morrison texts. The novels under scrutiny are: Beloved (2011 [1987]), A Mercy (2009 [2008]) and Sula (1998 ... -
Humour as "cultural reconciliation" in South African situation comedy : an ethnographic study of multicultural female viewers.
(1998)South African women of different ethnicity and background, having lived under apartheid, are now challenged by the freedoms expressed in the Bill of Rights and the new Constitution. This study, identifying the connections ... -
Ice core : an original collection of stories, plus a brief critical essay on the writing process.
(2013)This thesis comprises an original collection of short stories entitled Ice Core, plus a brief self-reflexive essay on the challenges, emphases and informing contexts which influenced the writing process. The stories in Ice ... -
The identity of difference : a critical study of representations of the Bushmen.
(1998)More than any other people, the Bushmen - like the Aborigines on the Australian continent - have epitomized the sub-human other in South African historiography. My primary concern in this study will be to interrogate the ... -
Images of nature in recent South African printmaking and ceramics.
(2000)This dissertation considers nature imagery in selected South Afiican ceramics and printmaking. The main focus is on ecological issues in recent art productions. The text consists of five chapters. The first examines the ... -
The immanent voice : an aspect of unreliable homodiegetic narration.
(1988)Unreliable homodiegetic narration presents a unique mode of narrative transmission which demands the encoding within the text of 'translational indices', that is, signifiers of several kinds which justify the reader/receiver ... -
Improvisations of empire : Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834.
(2008)This dissertation offers an extended examination of the writing of the 1820 Scottish settler Thomas Pringle. Though the primary focus of analysis is Pringle's poetry, the dissertation also engages extensively with Pringle's ... -
In a manner of speaking : some aspects of structure, including narration, in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell.
(1980)No abstract available. -
In the public interest : news values, ethics and the need for a new focus in South African journalism.
(2004)The dramatic transition from South Africa's previous apartheid political system to a democratic dispensation, has posed unique challenges for the media. Ethical practices per se are difficult, with joumalists being faced ... -
In-yer-face : the shocking Sarah Kane
(2008)Playwright, Sarah Kane emerged as a new voice in British writing in the early 1990s. Her work, recognized most notably for its shocking content, was the source of media hype, and rendered her work, with that of her peers, ... -
India through eastern and western eyes : women's auto/biography in colonial and post-colonial India.
(2001)During the course of my dissertation I demonstrate the way in which Anglo-Indian women writers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century diverge from the genre of the "feminine picturesque" as explained ... -
Inherent ecology : an examination of sculpture by Walter Oltmann, Andries Botha and Paul Edmunds.
(1995)I begin by describing Western culture in the way proposed by Fritjof Capra whose ideas remain seminal to my argument throughout this examination. I argue that Western value systems are in the midst of a major transformation, ... -
Inheriting man's estate : constructions of masculinity in selected popular narrative.
(2005)This dissertation analyses the violence of patriarchal culture as it is staged in three twentieth century texts: the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), the South African novelist ... -
"Inside the cavity of shame" : a critical presentation of the New Prison Poetry Project (1998), and the spaces of expression and alterity constructed in the writing of the participants.
(2004)Chapter One will introduce the central area of exploration of this study and establish the main terms of reference and guidelines of the research. Chapter Two will deal with the background and history of the project, and ... -
The international novel : a study of its origins and emergence as a genre in nineteenth century American fiction.
(1982)No abstract available. -
International students' experiences of taking a language and media studies honours specialisation at a South African university.
(2016)This study focused on international students’ experiences of taking the Language and Media Honours specialisation and utilised an interpretive paradigm and hermeneutic phenomenology as a theoretical framework. In order to ... -
Interpretation and the /Xam narratives.
(2006)There has, in the last quarter of a century, been an increased interest in the /Xam narratives that form the major part of the nineteenth century archive of materials collected by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in Cape Town ... -
Investigating and exploring the role of community newspapers against the background of profit-driven media environment : a Pietermaritzburg based study.
(2010)The aim of the study is to investigate and explore the role of community newspapers against the background of profit-driven media environment. The study adopted a qualitative research method. Data was collected using ...