Browsing Magister Artium - MA (English) by Title
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Narratives of assessment: the newsletter as case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate success of an integrated newsletter assignment for first year Human Resource Management students as an authentic and meaningful form of assessment by tracing and deciphering the ... -
Negotiating coloured identity through encounters with performance
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)In this study the theatre as staged performance and as text was used as exploratory and discursive tools to investigate the negotiation of identities. The aim was to explore this theme by examining the responses to four ... -
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)In this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The ... -
Playing with time: the relationship between theatrical timeframe, dramatic narrative and character development in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Alan Ayckbourn claims that he has always been facinated by time as an aid to dramatic story telling. The thesis examined how Ayckbourn manipulates the dramatic timeframe, often in an unconventional manner, as a device to ... -
Rap and the articulation of resistance: an exploration of subversive cultural production during the early 90's, with particular reference to Prophets of da City
(University of Western Cape, 1995)This thesis explores the ways in which Cape Town rap group Prophets of da City articulate their resistance to apartheid and, in particular, the ways in which they attempted to intervene in politicians' attempts to pacify ... -
Reading representations of the African Child in select contemporary films
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Framed by theories of childhood, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, trauma theory, film theory, and literary theory, this thesis investigates representations of the African child in three contemporary films about Africa. ... -
The representation of women in four of Naguib Mahfouz's realist novels: Palace walk, Palace of desire, Sugar street and Midaq alley
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis involved the various discourses around Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz's representation of women in four of his most well-known novels, which were originally written in Arabic. At the one extreme, he is described ... -
Seeking identity between worlds : a study of selected Chinese American fiction
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)The literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between ancestral Chinese traditional culture and the modernity of Western culture. This thesis explores diaspora theory, as elaborated by Stuart ... -
Shelleyan monsters : the figure of Percy Shelley in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis will examine the representation of the figure of Percy Shelley in the text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). My hypothesis is that Percy Shelley represents to Mary Shelley a figure who embodies the contrasting ... -
The social constructions of HIV/AIDS stigma in one community in Cape Town, South Africa
(2010)Due to tremendous stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, revelation of HIV positive sero-status of an individual has become a significant risk in communities of South Africa (Kalichman el al., 2003;Deacon et al., 2004; Kalichman et ... -
A sociolinguistic study of euphemisms on HIV and aids by Manenberg’s youth and adults
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis is a sociolinguistic exploration of the research that was conducted on the Manenberg community. It focuses on the community’s socio-economic vices such as gangsterism, drug trafficking, drug addiction, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The valley trilogy: a reading of C. Loius Leipoldt's English-language fiction circa 1925-1935
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Louis Leipoldt is known as a canonical figure in the history of Afrikaans poetry, He is customarily included in the pantheon of writers such as C.J. Langenhoven who not only established Afrikaans as a standardized national ... -
Visual Trauma: Representations of African Bodies in the 1983 Contre Apartheid Exhibition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen in the UN resolution and the rise of ...
