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Examining girlhoods in KwaZulu-Natal through “coming of age” conventions in selected Bildungsroman.
(2020)Presented chiefly as an endeavour within the field of post-colonial feminist scholarship in South Africa, this study navigates the emerging terrain of girlhood studies. It explores the changes and inclusions in the novel ... -
Trespassing: reading three white women’s representations of identity in narratives with South African settings.
(2021)The stimulus for this study is a photo exhibition Seeing White (2003) in which Michelle Booth invites white subjects to view themselves as the objectified ‘other’. Her exhibition is related to the growing field of whiteness ... -
Audacious black female heroes in speculative and Afrofuturist fiction from the Nigerian diaspora.
(2021)In four recent speculative novels from the Nigerian diaspora, The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (2013 [2005]), Who Fears Death (2018 [2011a]) and The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015), and Children of Blood and Bone ... -
Isizinda nendikimba yobugebengu emibhalweni engamanoveli : ‘Kuyoqhuma nhlamvana’, ‘Igazi lezibi’, ‘Ayikho impunga yehlathi nethi Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu.
(2020)Ubugebengu buyinto esihlukumezayo sonke njengomphakathi owakhele izindawo ezahlukene. Kuyenzeka busihlukumeze ngqo noma bahlukumeze labo esisondelene nabo kanti ziningi nezizathu zobugebengu. Ababhali baye bahlale imibhali ... -
Black female power in Dudu Busani-Dube’s novels Hlomu-the wife, Zandile-the resolute and Naledi-his love.
(2020)This dissertation examines the power of black females in Dudu Busani-Dube’s novels Hlomu-the wife, Zandile-the resolute and Naledi-his love. The study also examines Black diamond by Zakes Mda and Hunger eats a man by ... -
Ukuvezwa kwabafelokazi emibhalweni yesiZulu eqokiwe.
(2020)Kulolu cwaningo kubhekwa indlela okuvezwa ngayo abafelokazi emibhalweni yesiZulu. Izibonelo zalolu cwaningo zicashunwe emibhalweni yesiZulu engamashumi amabili. Le mibhalo ingamanoveli, izindaba ezimfishane nemidlalo emide ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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.
(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 ... -
Selective translations of Rachida Saqi's "Marochaines en male-vie".
(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. ... -
Ukuvezwa kwezinselelo zesikhathi senkululeko emanovelini esizulu ashicilelwe kusukela onyakeni we-1994 kuya kowezi-2014.
(2019)Lolu cwaningo lubheka izinselelo ezivezwa ngamanoveli aqokelwe lolu cwaningo. Lapha kubhekwa amanoveli ashicilelwe eminyakeni yokuqala yenkululeko engamashumi amabili. Ezinselelweni ezivezwa ucwaningo kukhona ubugebengu, ... -
Fabricated honesty: an original collection of poems, including a critical examination of the impact of twentieth century confessional poetry on my writing.
(2018)This dissertation consists of two sections: a creative section and a theoretical section. The first section of this paper will be the creative section which consists of a collection of 40 original poems that can be generally ... -
Interculturalité et pluriculturalité en classe de FLE : Une analyse du corpus littéraire du curriculum actuel des bacheliers de l’IEB.
(2019)Ce projet est né en premier lieu de mon intérêt dans le domaine du FLE et de la littérature française, et mes expériences comme enseignante et tutrice du français. Pendant mes études à l’université, j’ai donné des cours ... -
La représentation de l’hégémonie, le pouvoir et la migration dans les romans sélectionnés d’Abdourahman A. Waberi, Nadifa Mohamed et Ken Bugul.
(2017)Resume: Le titre de cette étude est La représentation de l’hégémonie, le pouvoir et la migration dans les romans sélectionnés d’Abdourahman A. Waberi, Nadifa Mohamed et Ken Bugul. L'étude soutient que malgré les attitudes ... -
Confluences of Lithoko, religious and traditional beliefs and western poetry in modern Sesotho poetry (MSP) : an intertextual perspective.
(2015)From an intertextual perspective, this study analyses the lithoko, religious beliefs and practices and western poetry confluences in modern Sesotho poetry. In this analysis, modern Sesotho poetry texts covering a period ... -
Reading isiZulu: reading processes in an agglutinative language with a transparent orthography.
(2015)The focus of this thesis is skilled silent reading in isiZulu. It begins by exploring the current social and educational context of learning to read and practising reading skills in isiZulu. It then considers eye movement ... -
Making the journey : the female Bildungsroman and quest motifs in selected Margaret Atwood texts.
(2015)The research presented in this dissertation examines, from a gender studies approach, the genre of the female Bildungsroman and the representation of quest motifs in three primary texts selected from the oeuvre of Margaret ...
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