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Native: An album of modern South African blues songs
(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 ...
The Sound of the Unseen
(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 ...
The rooms we build: poems of place and memory
(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 ...
When the village sleeps
(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 ...
Boycotting of academics: The case of UWC
(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.
A Connotative Turn for Pictorial Semiotics: The Cultural Semiotics of Goran Sonesson
(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 ...
Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
(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 ...
A connotative turn for pictorial semiotics: The cultural semiotics of Goran Sonesson
(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 ...
“A kind of symphony”: new nature in Jeff VanderMeer’s southern reach trilogy
(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 ...
The buried chameleon: A novel and critical reflective essay
(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, ...