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South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
In this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific ...
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 ...
Shaping the boys’ South African identity: Suppressed queer space in spud and Inxeba
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The purpose of this study is to explore how “queerness” is both represented and suppressed in select South African fiction. The study will investigate to what extent a post-colonial form of education reinforces the colonial ...
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 ...