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Unsettled: A Collection of Sort Stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Harriott is asleep under a jacaranda tree in her daughter's lush Escombe garden. Escombe is no longer part of the Natal Colony, the Natal Colony exists only in the minds of people like Harriott. Escombe, though still in ...
Blood, race and the construction of 'the Coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds'. In Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the hlstorlcal ...
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 ...
Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape ...
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 ...
Dance on the red-brown earth
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Nandi, Java and Uuka are students at a Cape Town university, where they are enrolled in a
film making course. Adela, their lecturer, will supervise their screenplay and film on a story
which depicts the experience of the ...
The girl with the red flower
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
For a woman of her age, thirty-seven, freshly divorced, she has, to her mind, not solved the
problem of her sex very well. So now her work in the escort business all those years ago will be
used against her. This warning ...
Bab’aba - Ugly short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Bab’aba - Ugly Short Stories is a collection of vignettes whose function is to colour and
collage three portraits of Black women characters; namely, a rural woman (Nozikhali), a
township teenager (Zola), and a child/baby ...
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 ...
The post-genocidal condition: Ghosts of genocide, genocidal violence, and representation
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
As a literary intervention, The Post-Genocidal Condition: Ghosts of Genocide, Genocidal
Violence, and Representation is situated at the intersection of genocide studies,
psychoanalysis, and literature so as to enable a ...