• Towards a transnational and intercultural literary perspective : continuity or discontinuity? 

  Ngcobo, Mqondisi Wiseman. (2001)

  Abstract available in the PDF.

• A critical discourse analysis, through deconstruction and reconstruction of Grade 8 English language textbooks in light of the Hizmet humanistic philosophy for the purpose of character education. 

  Duymun-Demirtaş, Naailah. (2019)

  The English language textbook as a vehicle of linguistic and general knowledge can at times contain topics which may not be appropriate for the diverse learners in a South African Grade 8 classroom. The focus of this ...

• #MrpMyStyle as brand communication: an analysis of Mr Price brand image as reflected through Facebook. 

  Gunkel, Kaylyn Elicia. (2019)

  This study investigates the hashtag #mrpmystyle as brand communication. Through observation of Mr Price‟s Facebook page, and its activities over a period, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Mr Price Facebook page in ...

• Articulating pain and surviving trauma: interrogating the representations of extreme gender violence in two contemporary South African plays by Lara Foot and Phyllis Klotz. 

  Mtshali, Nompumelelo. (2019)

  The high rape statistics in South Africa has launched diverse research enquiries to interrogate extreme gender-based violence particularly child rape and corrective rape. The findings from broad research studies for example ...

• Telling tales: life writing from the inner-city and a critical reflection on the ethics of non-fiction storytelling. 

  Groves, Sarah Anne. (2020)

  This thesis comprises a creative component entitled They won't come for us here, and a reflective component which examines the ethics of non-fiction storytelling. They won't come for us here is a compilation of life-writing ...

• Race trouble: An exploration of race relations in Zebra crossing, coconut and the book of memory by Meg Vandermerwe, Kopano Matlwa and Petina Gappah. 

  McCabe, Travis Guy. (2020)

  Despite the formalised abolishment of both apartheid and colonialism, it would in many respects be remiss to conclude that the legacy of these systems of oppression do not continue to exert some level of influence on the ...

• Drawing from life: An autobiographical study in the creative work of Sheryl Thornton-Dibb le Tourneur with reference to selected female artists. 

  Thornton-Dibb le Tourneur, Sheryl Leigh. (2019)

  This practice-based research (PBR) project facilitates the use of creative studio practice as research together with theoretical research that culminate in an integrated exhibition and written dissertation for examination ...

• A study on the creative processes of Ngalanga traditional music and dance from Mozambique: expressions of the Mozambican Chopi immigrant community of Clermont Township in Durban. 

  Chemane, José Alberto Daniel. (2018)

  This study is an ethnographic enquiry on the creative processes engaged in ngalanga by a migrant community of Mozambicans in Clermont Township in Durban. It discusses how creative actions are conceived and applied to ...

• 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. 

  O’Neill, Charlene. (2018)

  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 ...

• A comparative study of SV/VS word order in Arabic and Bantu. 

  Shakhatreh, Mohammad Gaseem. (2018)

  This thesis studies the SV/VS word orders in Bantu languages and Arabic dialects. This word orders alternation is correlated with other grammatical features as well as semantic/pragmatic readings of the constituents. The ...

• Selective translations of Rachida Saqi's "Marochaines en male-vie". 

  Hubbard, Mariah. (2001)

  My selection from Rachida Saqi's "novel" "Marocaines en male-vie" consists of a series of vignettes or sketches of Moroccan women and the difficulties they have to endure, some of which are unfamiliar to non-Muslim readers. ...

• Contemporary Afrikaner cultural identity and the Suidlanders: a discursive analysis of the Suidelanders Inligting DVD 2. 

  Lategan, Nicolette. (2012)

  This dissertation is a discursive analysis of the Suidlanders DVD2. It explores white Afrikaner identity through discourses such as those offered in the Kill the Boer debate, and an all-encompassing fear discourse that ...

• A comparative study of selected ellipsis constructions in English and IsiZulu. 

  Bevis, Andrew John. (2018)

  This work is a comparative study of verb phrase ellipsis (and verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis), sluicing and gapping, along with some of their subtypes, in English and the Bantu language isiZulu. The goal of the present ...

• From dislocation to redefinition of home in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret : a postcolonial perspective of home. 

  Every, Monique Simone Jo. (2018)

  This study aims to investigate new understandings of ‘home’ as represented through the experiences of the migrant characters in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret. I am interested in the ...

• Feminist discourse analysis in four selected Zulu literary texts beyond 'woman as a victim'. 

  Gumede, Henry Sifiso. (2018)

  The study’s hypothesis was that the condition of women in Zulu patriarchal society as reflected in the selected Zulu literary texts is still intolerable. Some female and male authors tend to echo social tendencies and ...

• Choreographies of identity, self and the ‘African’ dancing body in negotiating contemporary dancing histories and practices in KwaZulu-Natal post 1994 : a case study of Flatfoot Dance Company. 

  Loots, Lliane Jennifer. (2018)

  This thesis, through a series of case studies of my dance work with FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (post 1994), offers an interrogation of both my internal and external processes of decolonising entrenched paradigms of training, ...

• Contrapuntal textures: 'Othello' as postcolonial palimpsest. 

  Bennell, Maurice Vincent. (1997)

  No abstract provided.

• Naming of the informal settlements in Pietermaritzburg and Durban. 

  Ngcobo, Tholakele Ruth. (2018)

  Abstract available in both English and isiZulu in pdf.

• A critical analysis of uncanny characters in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book. 

  Govender, Kamalini. (2018)

  In this dissertation I examine uncanny characters in Neil Gaiman’s novels Coraline (2002) and The Graveyard Book (2008). I explore what constitutes uncanny characters in his narratives and the consequent effects these ...

• Representations of masculinity in selected novels with South African settings by Bryce Courtenay. 

  Van Selm, Damian Richard. (2019)

  This dissertation examines masculinities created by Bryce Courtenay as represented within his South African-set novels, The Power of One, published in 1989, Tandia, which appeared in 1991, and Whitethorn, published in 2005. ...

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