Recent Submissions

  • A cow’s meat: an original collection of poems and photographs that explores the influence of imagery in narrative 

    Deane, Kirsten (University of the Western Cape, 2023)
    This MACW mini-thesis will examine how photography can inspire narrative in a poem and enhance the impact of its imagery. As I embarked on my journey of writing, I came to the point of needing to augment its effect. So I ...
  • In-between: a collection of poems of loss and memory 

    Williams, Justin (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    My mini-thesis in Creative Writing aims to explore memory and childhood through the lens of spatial and temporal consciousness. The vehicle for navigating these memories, whether individual or collective, real or surreal, ...
  • Contemporary South African speculative fiction: A study of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection intruders (2018) 

    Ruiter, Marvyn John (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    Speculative fiction, South Africa, entanglement, social commentary, post-Apartheid, folktales, tropes, Africanfuturism, Africanjujuism, Mohale Mashigo Abstract Globally, speculative fiction is a popular genre, but it has ...
  • 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, ...
  • Changing rains, changing voices: Representations of black women over five decades of South African theatre (1950 - 1996) 

    Mazibuko, Nokuthula (University of the Western Cape, 1997)
    Changing rains, changing voices: Representations of black women over five decades of South African theatre (1950 - 1996) The general aim of this research paper is to investigate/interrogate, tough analyses of four popular ...
  • “A kind of symphony”: new nature in Jeff VanderMeer’s southern reach trilogy 

    Reiners, Rustin (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    The Anthropocene is the proposed name for a new geological epoch that has come about due to significant human changes to climate and environment. In response to the Anthropocene crisis, this thesis proposes a re-evaluation ...
  • A connotative turn for pictorial semiotics: The cultural semiotics of Goran Sonesson 

    Paulsen, Amanda (University of the Western Cape, 2000)
    Goran Sonesson provides a departure point from the work of Roland Barthes in the pictorial semiotic studies. He questions the theoretical and methodological assumptions underlying the Barthesian model. We compare Sonesson's ...
  • The buried chameleon: A novel and critical reflective essay 

    Fick, Cornelia Elizabeth (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    The critical-reflective component of the novel The Buried Chameleon explores the background to the writing of the novel, how I conducted my research, the challenges of writing a historical and contemporary dual narrative, ...
  • A Connotative Turn for Pictorial Semiotics: The Cultural Semiotics of Goran Sonesson 

    Paulsen, Amanda (University of the Western Cape, 2000)
    Goran Sonesson provides a departure point from the work of Roland Barthes in the pictorial semiotic studies. He questions the theoretical and methodological assumptions underlying the Barthesian model. We compare Sonesson's ...
  • Boycotting of academics: The case of UWC 

    Miche, Ana (UWC, 1980)
    An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding, or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose.
  • When the village sleeps 

    Magona, Sindiwe (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    This thesis consists of a creative and in-depth research component: a speculative novel, When the Village Sleeps, and a reflective long essay. It is about a young woman, Mandlakazi, who was born severely malformed, the ...
  • Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor 

    Malgas, Lester (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    This is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment— which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement: Climate ...
  • The rooms we build: poems of place and memory 

    Dyer, Caitlin (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
    The rooms we build is my Master’s thesis in creative writing. My thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces entitled “Letters to ...
  • The Sound of the Unseen 

    Horwitz, Samantha H. (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    This work of fiction explores the themes of relational dynamics, oppression, intergenerational trauma, and the healing and self-actualisation that can be obtained by helping others. It incorporates numerous historical ...
  • Native: An album of modern South African blues songs 

    Ellis, John (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    This Creative Writing project is an album of South African songs written specifically in the context of American blues music. Although blues is an intrinsically American genre of Western popular music, it has its roots ...
  • Figuring the heroine in the ankara romance series against the archetype of Flora Nwapa’s efuru: marriage, procreation, love, sex, and work, master’s 

    Mundembe, Enet (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    Romantic love has been neglected in the study of African literature and culture. It has been misconstrued and overlooked in canonical African literature, and the scholarship of that literature. Only recently has some ...
  • Dance on the red-brown earth 

    Conradie, Ina (University of the Western Cape, 2020)
    Nandi, Java and Uuka are students at a Cape Town university, where they are enrolled in a film making course. Adela, their lecturer, will supervise their screenplay and film on a story which depicts the experience of the ...
  • The secret life of doors 

    Meyer, M (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    This mini-thesis explores the poetic journey toward the subconscious images of an individual’s memory. It comprises a collection of 35 authentic poems and a reflective essay that examines the uncovering during the creative ...
  • Developing first year part-time students' academic competencies in an academic literacy module 

    Chu, Fidelis Ewe (University of Western Cape, 2010)
    The transition from high school to university for many students all over the world has never been very easy and this is also true in the South African context. At the University of the Western Cape the majority of students, ...

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