Browsing Department of English by Title
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Of flowers and tears
(University of Western Cape, 2018)The collection of ten short stories, Of Flowers and Tears, aims to capture the events that have shaped my life, impacted on my community. It hopefully gives a voice to topics such as mental trauma, sibling strife, abortion, ... -
Out of place: a re-evaluation of the poetry of Dennis Brutus
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The main aim of my dissertation is to re-evaluate the poetry of the South African writer Dennis Brutus (1924-2009). Even though he produced a substantial number of poems over more than half a century, his work continues ... -
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 ... -
Place, space and patriarchal femininities in selected contemporary novels by African women writers
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In much feminist literature, women’s spaces are analysed as constructive and supportive sites that may offer respite from patriarchy. However, women’s spaces are not inherently emancipatory. Through the socio-spatial ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The price of liberty: A collection of poems and prose that explore the interplay between freedom and sacrifice
(University of Western cape, 2020)The Price of Liberty: A collection of poems and prose that explores the interplay between freedom and sacrifice. David Schmidt This mini-thesis explores the interplay between concepts of freedom and sacrifice. It comprises ... -
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. ... -
Reflexive Essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after a ... -
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 ... -
Representations of fatherhood and paternal narrative power in South African English literature
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This study explores the different ways that South African novels have represented fatherhood across historical periods, from the dawn of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. It is argued that there is a link between ... -
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 rooms we build: poems of place and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The rooms we build is my Master’s thesis in creative writing. My thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces entitled “Letters to ... -
Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment— which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement: Climate ... -
The secret life of doors
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)This mini-thesis explores the poetic journey toward the subconscious images of an individual’s memory. It comprises a collection of 35 authentic poems and a reflective essay that examines the uncovering during the creative ... -
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 ...