Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Woodward, Wendy"
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Imagining and imaging the city – Ivan Vladislavić and the postcolonial metropolis
Ngara, Kudzayi Munyaradzi (University of Western Cape, 2011)This thesis undertakes an analysis of how six published works by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić form the perspective of writing the city – Johannesburg – into being. Beginning from the basis that Vladislavić’s ... -
Imagining the real-magical realism as a post-colonial strategy for narration of the self in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying and the Madonna of Excelsior
Ngara, Kudzayi Munyaradzi (University of the Western Cape, 2007)The thesis examines the role of magical realism as a postcolonial trope in Ways of Dying and The Madonna of Excelsior. It begins by stating that the author uses magical realism as an alternative strategy for self narration ...