Browsing Department of English by Title
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Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, ... -
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
(2012)This research is a discourse analysis of a Christian ‗coloured‘ youth group, from the area of Mitchell‘s Plain, Cape Town. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the interlocutors construct their identities ... -
Haunting temporalities: Creolisation and black women's subjectivities in the diasporic science fiction of Nalo Hopkinson
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This study examines temporal entanglement in three novels by Jamaican-born author Nalo Hopkinson. The novels are: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), and The Salt Roads (2004). The study pays particular ... -
Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back" that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial ... -
I am not a colour: A novella
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Nobathembu lifts her hand and waves at her neighbour. She is watering spinach in her garden with a jug from a bucket. At age sixty-nine, her beauty shines. The sun is high on the echoes of Nyanga village – echoes of ... -
The idea of the hero in Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)In this thesis I focus on the ways I believe Jane Austen re-imagines the idea of the hero. In popular fiction of her time, such as Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (1753), what we had as a hero figure served as a ... -
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 ... -
Imagining what it means to be ''human'' through the fiction of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Through a literary analysis of two contemporary novels, J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), in which a common concern seems to be an exploration of what it means to be ... -
In-between: a collection of poems of loss and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)My mini-thesis in Creative Writing aims to explore memory and childhood through the lens of spatial and temporal consciousness. The vehicle for navigating these memories, whether individual or collective, real or surreal, ... -
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, ... -
Introspection, female consciousness and the quiet revolution in the novels of Nawal El Saadawi and Mariama Bâ
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis considers introspection and female consciousness in the novels Woman At Point Zero and Two Women In One by Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian writer and So Long A Letter and Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ, a Senegalese ... -
An investigation of the potential role that folklore can play in environmental education: a case study of Mphoko
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis investigated the role that folklore can play in contemporary environmental problems. This research was prompted by people living around the Mantrombi nature reserve in the Nebo region of Limpopo province who ... -
The jewelled net: Towards a Southern African theory/ practice of environmental literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)This thesis suggests that there is an urgent need for academic work in literary and cultural studies to become more responsive to the contemporary eco-social crisis of environment and development. Questioning the ... -
“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 ... -
Lady Liberty
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Learning to Exhale
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)My MA mini-thesis in Creative Writing is a collection of 33 poems titled Learning to Exhale. The poems are centred around a character – a black African woman who is sharing her experiences of mental illness. The poems ... -
Let’s go home: Stories and portraits
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Let's Go Home encompasses thirteen short stories inspired by the Coloured fishing community of Blompark in Gansbaai. These stories embody a range of voices and perspectives, some contemporary, some set in the past thirty ... -
Lost on the way home
(University of Western Cape, 2018)This is a novella about homelessness, and the forms of exile, loss and displacement that it creates. Based in South Africa and Palestine/Israel, it is a story about four men who all find themselves alienated and marginalised ... -
The marginal grey: A collection of short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)A Collection of Short Stories. -
Molla's music
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Molla's Music is a novella about Maureen (Molla), a white Afrikaans woman born in 1935 in Cape Town, who faced poverty and abandonment before apartheid and who, during apartheid, faced the choice between an unwanted pregnancy ...
