Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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Visions of a past : Olive Schreiner's 'colonial' problematics.
(2011)The 'colony' in Olive Schreiner‟s fiction and non-fiction is a place or space, I shall argue, that is both dynamic and complex. The comings and goings, the stories, of the 'characters' in the space are not reducible to the ... -
Water in visual art : an investigative study of selected paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Oscar Claude Monet and Pat Steir.
(2004)This research examines the significance of water as it has been used as a subject in the visual arts, with particular concentration on the use of geometry as a means of accessing pictorial possibilities. The study focuses ... -
Western representations of the African 'other' : investigations into the controversy around Geert Van Kesteren's photographs of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia.
(2002)The focus of this study is the controversy around the photographic representation of the RIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia (1999) by the Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren. The controversy evolved around the 13th International ... -
'What it is to be a man' : beyond stereotypes of African American masculine identities in selected works by Toni Morrison.
(2012)This dissertation comprises a literary investigation of the way in which Toni Morrison is able to transcend stereotypes associated with African American masculinity within a selection of her works namely, Song of Solomon, ... -
When Sita met Belle: an Indian woman finds her voice through re-visioning fairy tales.
(2019)The dissertation comprises a creative component and a reflection paper. The creative component is a novella titled “When Sita Met Belle.” The novella engages with the Beauty and the Beast narrative written from an Indian ... -
Women and utterance in contexts of violence : Nehanda, Without a name and The strange virgins by Yvonne Vera.
(2006)This dissertation is a study of women and utterance in contexts of violence in the three selected novels written by the late Yvonne Vera: Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), and The Stone Virgins (2002). A study of the ... -
Women’s voices, precarity, and commercialism in selected dystopian South African fiction.
(2019)This dissertation examines the use and effects of women’s voices, precarity, and commercialism in selected dystopian South African fiction, namely Moxyland (2008) by Lauren Beukes, For the Mercy of Water (2012) by Karen ... -
The work of G.H. Durrant : English studies and the community.
(2009)This study concerns the writing of Geoffrey Hugh Durrant. Durrant’s writing is to a large extent academic in nature, but he also comments on the broader South African society during the course of the 1940s and 1950s. The ... -
Workshopping the AIDS play with men : an explorative study of four collaboratively created HIV/AIDS plays, with special focus on the problem of gender, masculinity and cultural memory in creating narrative with men in the workshop theatre process.
(2008)This dissertation aims to explore problems of gender, masculinity and cultural memory shared by men in the theatre workshop process through looking at the workshop process of four HIV/AIDS plays. The narrative that evolved ... -
Writing autism inside-out autism and representation : a novel and critical essay.
(2014)The dissertation adopts both a creative and critical approach to exploring the representation of autism in literature. Much of the autism literature produced so far has arisen in first-world, developed contexts, characterised ... -
Writing black sisters : interrogating the construction by selected black female playwrights of performed black female identities in contemporary post-apartheid South African theatre.
(2012)Theatre is a political space which often reflects the social, political and personal conditions and consciousness of our society. It is also a place that allows for the speaking of private stories; a space that proffers ... -
Yeats and national identity.
(2008)In this thesis I set out WB Yeats' s conception of Irish national identity as a non-essentialist, inclusive, and imaginative construct. I do so against the backdrop of Edward Said's construction of Yeats, within the field ...