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The postcolonial aesthetics of beauty, nature and form: Reading the glass palace, the hungry tide and the shadow lines by Amitav Ghosh
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
One can think of an aesthetic as one’s artistic mode and purpose. The aesthetic is differently
foregrounded in each of Ghosh’s three selected novels: in the first novel studied, aesthetic
concerns are linked with beauty. ...
Intermediality in the novels of Lauren Beukes
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
There is the growing recognition that literary works are not independent, but have often been impacted on by various other media. Complex intersections arise between printed text and other media such as photography, film, ...
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 ...
Figuring the heroine in the ankara romance series against the archetype of Flora Nwapa’s efuru: marriage, procreation, love, sex, and work, master’s
(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 ...
The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
I read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs ...