Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
In a manner of speaking : some aspects of structure, including narration, in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Investigating beneficiary communities' participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio stations : a case study of X-K FM.
(2012)The thrust of this dissertation is concerned with investigating beneficiary communities‟ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio stations. The aim is to understand the presence and access of targeted ... -
An investigation into the stereotypical representation of gender roles in advertising : a case study of advertisements from a cross-section of popular South African weekly and bi-weekly newspapers.
(2004)This study was designed to investigate the representation of gender roles in advertisements in popular South African newspapers, namely, the Sunday Times, Rapport, City Press, Post and Ilanga. The literature reviewed ... -
An investigation into the use of terms aithiops and aithiopia in Greek literature from Homer to Lycophron.
(1997)The Greeks and Romans were acquainted with dark skinned people from Africa from an early stage. It has been generally accepted that such people were referred to as aithiopias; by the Greeks, and modem commentators have ... -
Irony in Herman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk stories.
(2003)Herman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk stories have made him one of the most popular writers in South Africa, and the rural Marico District in which the stories are set a popular tourist destination. This popularity is largely ...