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Introspection, female consciousness and the quiet revolution in the novels of Nawal El Saadawi and Mariama Bâ
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis considers introspection and female consciousness in the novels Woman At Point Zero and Two Women In One by Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian writer and So Long A Letter and Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ, a Senegalese ...
Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
An important aspect of my thesis is the discussion of the various narrators in the novel; Vladimir Nabokov, John Ray Jnr. and Humbert Humbert. The novel, or Humbert’s memoirs, is only published after Lolita has died in ...
A systemic functional analysis of two Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies: transitivity and genre
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two ...
A discourse analysis of a personal narrative told by an adolescent boy in a Cape Town children's home.
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
Storytelling serves many purposes. People often tell stories as a coping mechanism, as a way of self-representation, and as a means for self-reflection. Through stories, narrators construct identities and gain perspective ...
Imagining what it means to be ''human'' through the fiction of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Through a literary analysis of two contemporary novels, J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of
Michael K (1983) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), in which a common concern
seems to be an exploration of what it means to be ...
“I am a queen”: (Re)fashioning African female identities in everyday storytelling
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study aims to add to the rich body of work which explores our understanding of identity
performances in narratives. It explores how a close knit group of five female friends use
narrative structure and strategies ...
Exploring the commonalities between Stanley Hauerwas and James H Cone’s narrative approaches for moral formation for post-Apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis will investigate the narrative approach to moral formation by comparing the
narrative paradigm as espoused by James H. Cone and Stanley Hauerwas and will apply the
findings to post-Apartheid South Africa. I ...