Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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A feminist analysis of Bessie Head's oeuvre with reference to migration and psychoanalysis.
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A feminist analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions (1988).
(2009)The thesis provides a feminist analysis of the Zimbabwean women writer Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), reading the novel as a critique of African patriarchy. The thesis examines the different ways ... -
A feminist postructuralist examination around the utilisation of the body as a contested site of struggle for meaning in contemporary theatre dance in South Africa.
(2000)Using a framework of feminism and poststructuralism, this thesis aims to interrogate the utilisation of the body as a contested site of struggle for meaning in contemporary theatre dance in South Africa. "Both feminism, ... -
Few against many : the reception of the battle of Thermopylae in popular culture, South Africa and children's literature.
(2009)The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. is an event of Greek history that has inspired numerous subsequent receptions. Many of these later ‘receptions’ of the battle have been studied in varying degrees of detail by scholars ... -
Fictional constructions of Grey Street by selected South African Indian writers.
(2007)Fictional Constructions of Grey Street by Selected South African Indian Writers. This thesis explores the fictional constructions of Grey Street by selected South African Indian writers to establish a deeper understanding ... -
Fictional reconstructions of Cato Manor : In at the edge and other Cato Manor stories and Song of the Atman by Ronnie Govender.
(2014)No abstract available. -
Fighting tomorrow : a study of selected Southern African war fiction.
(2005)This research provides an analytical reading of five southern African war novels, in a transnational study of the experience of war as represented by the novels' authors. In order to situate the texts within a transnational ... -
From animated film to theatrical spectacle : a semiotic analysis of the scenography and recreation of Beauty and the Beast (1994) and The Lion King (1997)
(2010)This dissertation aims to analyse the re-creation and transformation of animated films into theatrical spectacles, by examining two Walt Disney animations and productions as case studies: Beauty and the Beast (1991 & ... -
From dislocation to redefinition of home in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret : a postcolonial perspective of home.
(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 ... -
From homo to pomo : 'gay identity' amongst young white men in contemporary South Africa.
(2011)This project argues that there is a 'lacuna' in the representation of the demographic understood as 'young, white, urban, gay men' in contemporary South Africa. Whilst mediated popular representations of this demographic ... -
The function of the intellectuals with special reference to Antonio Gramsci.
(2003)No abstract available. -
A gender analysis of music videos on MTV Base Africa.
(2011)The purpose of this research is to explore gender representation in music videos on MTV Base Africa. The study attempts to determine if dominant hegemonic portrayals exist or whether space is made for alternative gender ... -
Gender and identity : a South African perspective on Mary Wollstonecraft's politics and literature.
(2004)No abstract available. -
Gender on the frontline : a comparative study of the female voice in selected plays of Athol Fugard and Zakes Mda.
(2002)It can be argued that critical scholarship has not satisfactorily commented on the portrayal of women in South African theatre by male playwrights. This dissertation will examine the presentation of the female voice in ... -
Gender, games and landscape in Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela.
(2004)No abstract available. -
Gendered geographies and the politics of place : a comparative reading of the novels of Mariama Bâ and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(2014)This thesis is concerned with inscriptions of gender and space in the novels of two African women writers, Mariama Bâ and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, particularly Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981) and Scarlet Song (1986) and ... -
Guns, spears and pens : the role of the Echo poems in the political conflict in the Natal Midlands.
(2002)This thesis sets out to examine the role of the poems in Echo (a supplement to the Natal Witness) that were published between 1986 and 1994. I will be exploring these poems in the light of the political conflict that was ... -
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 ...