In the short story collection Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals (1992) the
Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera initiates her construction of alternative
historical narratives, particularly ones that are able to voice women’s ...
This study aims to interrogate the representations of forgiveness in post genocide Rwandan fiction. The novels analysed are Inyenzi: A story of Love and Genocide (2007), Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan ...
This study comprises a close reading and textual analysis of The Sentients of Orion, a
space opera series by Australian author Marianne de Pierres, with a view to investigating
the representations of gender in modern, ...
Post-apartheid writing has been characterized by an ardent search for a voice that truly depicts the painful apartheid past. The establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) promoted a confessional mode ...
This study discusses how the concepts of home and displacement are portrayed in the
selected novels of two Southern African writers: We Need New Names (2013) by
Zimbabwe born and USA based author, NoViolet Bulawayo, and ...
This dissertation critically evaluates the issue of the `silencing' of the subaltern woman in the 1988 version of Gayatri Spivak's essay `Can the Subaltern Speak?' The conclusions reached are then related to the novel The ...