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A study of Roy Campbell as a South African modernist poet
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Roy Campbell was once a key figure in the South African literary canon. In recent years, his poetry has faded from view and only intermittent studies of his work have appeared. However, as the canon of South African ...
Shadows, faces and echoes of an African war: The Rhodesian bush war through the eyes of Chas Lotter – soldier poet
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Poetry that is rooted in that most extreme of human experiences, war, continues to grip the public imagination. When the poetry under scrutiny comes from the "losing side" in a colonial war of liberation, important moral ...
Haunting temporalities: Creolisation and black women's subjectivities in the diasporic science fiction of Nalo Hopkinson
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This study examines temporal entanglement in three novels by Jamaican-born author Nalo Hopkinson. The novels are: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), and The Salt Roads (2004). The study pays particular ...
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 ...
Out of place: a re-evaluation of the poetry of Dennis Brutus
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The main aim of my dissertation is to re-evaluate the poetry of the South African writer Dennis Brutus (1924-2009). Even though he produced a substantial number of poems over more than half a century, his work continues ...
Imagining and imaging the city – Ivan Vladislavić and the postcolonial metropolis
(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 ...
Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative
modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are
Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), ...
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, ...
What lies beneath tutors' feedback? Examining the role of feedback in developing 'knowers' in English studies
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Feedback plays an important role in student learning and development in higher
education. However, for various reasons, it is often not as effective as it should be. Many studies
have attempted to ‘solve’ the feedback ...
The jewelled net: Towards a Southern African theory/ practice of environmental literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
This thesis suggests that there is an urgent need for academic work in literary and
cultural studies to become more responsive to the contemporary eco-social crisis of environment and
development. Questioning the ...