Browsing Department of English by Subject "Africa"

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  • Bildungsroman writing by women in Africa and in the African diaspora 

    Bivan, Amos Dauda (University of the Western Cape, 2023)
    The Bildungsroman has from inception traditionally been a male-dominated genre, but a number of significant women-authored novels written in the 20th century disrupt these established patterns. The thesis demonstrates how ...

  • Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner 

    Jacobs, Nicolette (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, ...

  • The post-genocidal condition: Ghosts of genocide, genocidal violence, and representation 

    Van Der Rede, Lauren (University of the Western Cape, 2018)
    As a literary intervention, The Post-Genocidal Condition: Ghosts of Genocide, Genocidal Violence, and Representation is situated at the intersection of genocide studies, psychoanalysis, and literature so as to enable a ...