Chapter 1 introduces the study. Chapter 2 discusses literal onomastics as a new literary theory
to be used as an analytical tool in subsequent chapters. Chapter 3 presents naming practices
and the plot in Kungenxa Kabani? ...
Naming practices is primarily concerned with the study of
names in a literary work. These names of characters and
places are studied in relation to literary aspects such as
characterization, plot, action and theme. The ...
This dissertation Is an investigation of naming pracices in N. A. Milubi's drama
'MUKOSI WA LUFU. The names of characters and places are explained in.
relation to literary aspects such as characterization, plot, action ...
This thesis investigates how selected Zimbabwean female writers narrate HIV and AIDS. It argues that, generally, the prevailing images of women in Zimbabwean society and literature are incapacitating. Male authors have ...
In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to
the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as
strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby
attempting to make a contribution in the ...
The aim of this research entitled Narrative Strategies in Selected Amharic Novels from 2000 until 2010 was to shed light on the relationship among form, meaning (content) and social milieuin establishing the textual and ...
This doctoral study investigates the practice of narrative strategies in the creation of animated poetry-film. The status of the animator as auteur of the poetry-film is established on the grounds of the multiple instances ...
This dissertation is an investigation of the narrative techniques
in three selected novels of T N Maumela. Attention is paid to the
mode of narration, the handling of characters and the organization
of material in these ...
The aim of this research is to look at time, focalisation and
space as theoretical aspects of narratology and the application
thereof in the novel entitled Unyana Womntu by N. Saule. After
having assessed and scrutinised ...
In the introduction of this article the focus falls on the opinions of prominent South African leaders on the relationship between the majority and the minority in post-apartheid South Africa. These opinions echo the ...
Kemoni, N Henry; Ngulube, Patrick(Unisa Press, 2007)
The article presents the fidings of a study which examined the role of Kenya National
Archives and Documentation Service (KNADS) in the management of records in 18
government ministry headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Data ...
Symbols such as the Rainbow Nation and new national flag have been hailed worldwide as
representative of optimism that the new political dispensation would bring reconciliation and unity in
the diverse South African ...
Since the advent of a new democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the
metaphor of the ‘‘Rainbow Nation’’, first coined by Nobel peace laureate Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, has become the symbol of peace and ...
This study sets out to analyse the relevance of cultural values and perceptions, which
form the basis of the "local knowledge" of grassroots people, in the natural resource
management of the Laka of Mapela who live in ...
The aim of this research is to investigate the nature and development of the detective
narrative in Northern Sotho from its beginnings in the 1960s up to its present level in the
1990s.
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Due to the peculiarities of ...
The study recognizes agriculture as the rriainstay activity of most economies in Africa and analyses research nature and
trends in the discipline by using descriptive informetrics and focusing or) seven indicators, by ...
Gcumisa, M. S. S.(Mlindeli Samuel Simeon)(2009-08-25)
This study explores nature as a source of inspiration in Zulu poetry. With the exception of the introductory and concluding chapters all chapters are structurally similar. Each chapter consists of an introduction, communication ...
In this dissertation it is argued that literary theories have traditionally extended abundant
attention on authors and texts, neglecting, with very few exceptions, the impor- tant role
of the READER. To ...
This study is an analysis of the nature of possession in siSwati from a socio-cultural perspective. The study seeks to uncover how possession is expressed in siSwati and also the socio-cultural traits of the Swazi people ...
The basic aim of this study is to investigate the nature of the narrative, concerning
itself with the structures inherent in a system of signs which reveals the
communicative function of literature. The general aim is ...