School of Arts
Sub-communities within this community
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African Languages [64]
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Art History [14]
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Fine Art [12]
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Music [106]
Recent Submissions
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Blackness and beyond : black consciousness and the antinomies of identity negotiation in South Africa.
(1996)Abstract available in PDF. -
Decolonising the mind : the challenge of Mtutuzeli Matshoba's texts.
(1991)Abstract available in PDF. -
South African writers in exile: a search for identity and common threads in their writing.
(1995)Abstract available in PDF. -
Ubuciko bokwethiwa kwamagama abalingiswa emanovelini abhalwa ngemuva konyaka wezi- 2000: kubhekwa ukwethulwa kwabalingiswa ukuthi kuyafana nokwetha jikelele.
(2019)According to the context of South Africa, a personal name carries a lot of information that speaks to its naming. A personal name carries an identity and a character of the name carrier but other races view personal names ... -
The familial reconfiguration of the subject of cultural discourse in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions.
(1996)Abstract available in PDF. -
Une etude de l'évolution du concept d’ afropolitanisme dans une selection de trois romans d' Alain Mabancko.
(2019)This dissertation provides insight into the concept of Afropolitanism by means of a detailed critical analysis of three novels from the pen of the francophone author, Alain Mabanckou, himself an Afropolitan. The three ... -
Using self-identity and brand personality in advertising appeals: a Unilever Dove case study.
(2020)The rise in popular culture and the growing power of brands led to factoring consumers and their self-concept, their buying power and interests as a part of the strategies implemented for the purpose of advertising. Brand ... -
Investigation into the portrayal of female characters in selected isiZulu novel after the year 2000: an African womanist literal approach.
(2019)What use to work in time memorial may be outdated in the current dispensation. Western feminism and African womanism does not tolerate women oppression. Hands of time are not static in so doing the tide of time ensures ... -
Oral tradition, recent and contemporary black South African poetry in English: towards a relevant aesthetic.
(1996)Abstract available in the PDF. -
Investigation into the portrayal of female characters in selected isiZulu novels after the year 2000: an African womanist literary approach.
(2019)What use to work in time memorial may be outdated in the current dispensation. Western feminism and African womanism does not tolerate women oppression. Hands of time are not static in so doing the tide of time ensures ... -
A comparative study of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and Herbert Marcuse with regard to their attitudes towards the culture of their particular epochs.
(1972)Abstract available in the PDF. -
Wifely submission and filial obedience: patriarchal subjugation of women and children and strategies of resistance in selected literary text set in Africa.
(2020)This thesis performs a textual analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s From a Crooked Rib (2006 [1970]), Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile (2015 [1985]), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2013 [2003]), Ayaan Hirsi ... -
Wit(h)nessing trauma in Han Kang’s the white book (2016)
(2020)This dissertation presents a literary analysis of The White Book (2016) by the South Korean writer, Han Kang. In a series of semi-autobiographical prose passages, The White Book (2016) explores the socio-political and ... -
A study of masculinity, memory and trauma in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home.
(2019)In this dissertation I explore the representations of ‘struggle’ masculinity and the trauma of black masculinity in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home (2013). My primary focus in this regard is Kimathi, the novel’s protagonist. ... -
Contemplations in the natural landscape: Unearthing the surface in the ceramic vessels of Anda Dodo.
(2019)This Practice-Based Masters research project comprises this written dissertation together with the creative studio practice of Anda Dodo. The focus of this qualitative research is nonutilitarian nature-inspired ceramic ... -
Multilingual writing pedagogy for African languages in the monolingual education setting: literacy development for multilingual children in Rwanda (Grades 1-3)
This study investigates multilingual literacy practices in Rwanda. It first assesses selected writings produced by young children whose L1 is Oluchiga while learning writing skills in Kinyarwanda (L2) in Grade 1 to Grade ... -
Hooked: a truelife production about teen drug and alcohol abuse: engaging action research and postmodern theatre practices in devising a theatre in education project.
(2019)Theatre in Education (TIE) has a long history of impact and development, and in South Africa, has been particularly instrumental in bringing about social change, challenging young people to reflect on their lives and ... -
Into Ulwembu: exploring collaborative methodologies in a research-based theatre production on street-level drug use in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2019)Over a yearlong creative process starting in 2014, The Big Brotherhood, Mpume Mthombeni, Dr Dylan McGarry and myself, Neil Coppen, came together to devise a collaborative theatrical intervention in response to the ‘whoonga ... -
Raiding genres, remaking contemporary South African jazz discourse: the study of choices and ideals behind my compositional portfolio.
(2019)This thesis is presented as an autoethnography that documents the process of composing a portfolio of works that are identifiable as Jazz. Autoethnography is understood here as both a theory and a method. While my personal ...
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