Browsing by Author "Wittenberg, Hermann"
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African traditional culture and modernity in Zakes Mda’s the heart of redness
(2005)In my thesis entitled ‘African Tradition and Modernity in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness’, I analyze the way Western modernity and African traditions interact in Mda’s novel. I suggest that both modernity and tradition ... -
Between text and stage: the theatrical adaptations of J.M. Coetzee's Foe
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This thesis will critically analyse two theatrical adaptations of J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986). Primarily, this thesis will be seeking to understand the complex relationship of the primary text to its adaptations more closely, ... -
Cinematic and photographic aesthetics in the novels of J.M. Coetzee
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)This thesis will examine the extensive cinematic and photographic visuality inscribed in the fictions of J. M. Coetzee. Coetzee's prose is inflected by a complex intermediality that references media aesthetics, practices, ... -
Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and ... -
Intermediality in the novels of Lauren Beukes
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)There is the growing recognition that literary works are not independent, but have often been impacted on by various other media. Complex intersections arise between printed text and other media such as photography, film, ... -
Reading representations of the African Child in select contemporary films
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Framed by theories of childhood, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, trauma theory, film theory, and literary theory, this thesis investigates representations of the African child in three contemporary films about Africa. ... -
Representations of fatherhood and paternal narrative power in South African English literature
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This study explores the different ways that South African novels have represented fatherhood across historical periods, from the dawn of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. It is argued that there is a link between ... -
Shaping the boys’ South African identity: Suppressed queer space in spud and Inxeba
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The purpose of this study is to explore how “queerness” is both represented and suppressed in select South African fiction. The study will investigate to what extent a post-colonial form of education reinforces the colonial ... -
The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)In this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the ... -
Visual trauma: Representations of African bodies in the 1983 Contre Apartheid Exhibition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen in the UN resolution and the rise ...
