Browsing by Subject "Diaspora"
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A forgotten diaspora : forced Indian Migration to the Cape Colony, 1658 to 1834
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis aims to explore Indian forced migration to the Cape Colony from 1658 to 1834. The forgotten diaspora‘ of its title refers to the first Indians who had come to the shores of South Africa, long before the ... -
Moving into the diaspora: an exploration of Zimbabwean immigrants' perceptions regarding their legacy beliefs while living in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Background: Over the past decade, the influx of Zimbabweans into the Diaspora heightened after the dismal failure of the Land Reform Policy saga, resulting in a political, social and economic crisis. South Africa being the ... -
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 ... -
Théâtres and mikilistes: Congolese films and Congolese diasporic identity in the post-Mobutu period (1998-2011)
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Zimbabwe/Rhodesia writing home: Space, place, mobility and diasporic identity in selected novels
(University of Western Cape, 2021)This thesis examines how “unhomeliness” in a Zimbabwean context enjoins mobility and the diasporic particularities that manifest as subjects move back and forth in a homemaking journey between the country-side and the ...