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Between Tinseltown and Sophiatown: The Double Temporality of Popular Culture in the Autobiographical Cultural Memory of Bloke Modisane and Miriam Makeba

Masemola, Kgomotso (Taylor & Francis, 2011-03)

Prompted by Paul Gilroy’s question as to how active remembrance in black expressive culture is associated with a distinctive and disjunctive temporality (1993: 212), this article brings to view divided autobiographical ...

Die verhouding tussen trauma en magiese realisme in Op soek na generaal Mannetjies Mentz (1998) deur Christoffel Coetzee

Fourie, Reinhardt (LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe), 2014-07-08)

ENGLISH: The relationship between trauma and magical realism in Op soek na generaal Mannetjies Mentz by Christoffel Coetzee. This article investigates the relationship between trauma and magical realism in the Afrikaans ...

Synecdoche and Allegory in the filmic record of the memory of African Genocide in John Le Carré’s The Constant Gardener

Masemola, Kgomotso; Makoe, Pinky (Taylor & Francis, 2014-08)

This article shows that the filmic depiction of the death of Tessa Quayle, a social activist portrayed by Rachel Weisz, is a memorialised historical allegory of genocide caused by deliberate and lethal clinical trials ...

Musical Space as Site of Transculturation of Memory and Transformation of Consciousness: The re-affirmation of Africa in the Black Atlantic Assemblage

Masemola, Kgomotso; Makoe, Pinky (Taylor & Francis, 2014-03)

This article argues that the recent meteoric emergence of trends such as hip hop and other popular genres in South Africa is a simultaneous internationalization and indigenization of representational temporalities. The ...

Die produksiegehalte van Palindroom en Kladboek deur Joan Hambidge as gevallestudies binne die uitgewersbedryf

Fourie, Reinhardt (LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe), 2009-03-20)

ENGLISH: The production quality of Palindroom and Kladboek by Joan Hambidge as case studies within the publishing industry. This article investigates the quality of specific products of two publishing houses. Within ...

Transcultural memory and intertextuality in Fred Khumalo’s seven steps to heaven

Masemola, Kgomotso (Univarsity of South Africa Press, 2014)

Enriching the mise-en-scene of a South Africa in transition with everything ranging from the music of the famous Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes troupe and South African trio dubbed ‘Joy’ to movie titles, this novel by ...

Antidote for Global Feminist Gaps As Encoded in Sindiwe Magona’s Black South African Autobiographies

Rafapa, Lesibana (Nova Science Publishers, 2014-09)

The relatively new black woman South African writer Sindiwe Magona’s autobiographies To My Children’s Children (1990) and Mother to Mother (1998) urge the agency of oppressed black South African women in a nuanced manner. ...

Representations of the National and Transnational in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Rafapa, Lesibana; Masemola, Kgomotso (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2014-04)

As creative agents of knowledge production in the domain of humanities knowledge, South African writers such as Phaswane Mpe have the historical burden of participating in the transformation of knowledge in ways ...

Representations of the National and Trans-national in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Lesibana, Rafapa; Michael Kgomotso, Masemola (Alternation, 2014)

As creative agents of knowledge production in the domain of humanities knowledge, South African writers such as Phaswane Mpe have the historical burden of participating in the transformation of knowledge in ways ...

Changing images : representations of the Southern African black women in works by Bessie Head, Ellen Kuzwayo, Mandla Langa and Mongane Serote

Marsden, Dorothy Frances (1994-11)

This study examines representations of Southern African black women in the works' of two male and two female writers. A comparative approach is used to review the ways in which the writers characterise women who labour ...

A study of the presentation of women in the novels of Barbara Pym

Blair, Cairn Fiona (1996-11)

In this dissertation I attempt an evaluation of Barbara Pym as a feminist writer. I study the central protagonists in Pym's twelve novels in the context of British society in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I have drawn on ...

A critical analysis of Wole Soyinka as a dramatist, with special reference to his engagement in contemporary issues

Lunga, Majahana John Chonsi (1994)

This dissertation is mainly on Wole Soyinka as a dramatist. It aims to show that Soyinka, far from being an irrelevant artist as some of his fiercest critics have alleged, is a deeply committed writer whose works are ...

Finishing the hat, where there never was a hat : a critical analysis of the words and music of Stephen Sondheim and their relationship to the development of musical theatre as an art form

Lambert, Josephine Gay (1998-11)

This dissertation develops the premise that, whilst conceding the difficulties inherent in the medium, musical theatre should be regarded as an art form, worthy of serious critical evaluation. This view is supported by ...

The representation of madness in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Kreuiter, Allyson (2000-01)

The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter considers the representation of ...

Science as narrative : Alan Sokal's critique of postmodernism

Krueger, Anton Robert (2000-01)

Alan Sokal has questioned the postmodern assertion that 'science is ... a "myth'', a "narration" ... a "social construction'" (1998: x). This dissertation examines his reasons for rejecting this allegedly postmodern ...

Insubstantial pageants fading : a critical exploration of epiphanic discourse, with special reference to three of Robert Browning's major religious poems

Keep, Carol Julia (1994-11)

This dissertation examines the nature of epiphanic discourse in three of Robert Browning's religious poems, namely, 'Christmas- Eve', 'Easter-bay' and 'La Saisiaz'. Chapter 1 investigates epiphany from religious, ...

White skin under an African Sun : (white) women and (white) guilt in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing

Horrell, Georgina Ann (2001-06)

In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa J.M.Coetzee writes of the "system" of guilt and shame, debt and retribution which operates throughout society. He and writers like Doris Lessing ...

Crossing boundaries : gender and genre dislocations in selected texts by Samuel R. Delany

Hope, Gerhard Ewoud (2001-02)

This dissertation offers an examination of Delany's critical trajectory from structuralism to poststructuralism and postmodernism across a gamut of genres from SF to sword-and-sorcery, pornography, autobiography and literary ...

Cultural nationalism and colonialism in nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction

Glisson, Silas Nease (2000-11)

This thesis will explore how writers of nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction, namely short stories and novels, used their works to express the social, cultural, and political events of the period. My thesis will employ ...

Mobilities of presence : the motifs of time and history in the novels of Peter Ackroyd

Baker, Hendia (1992-11)

After a brief contextualisation, time and history are examined in Ackroyd's novels. Chapter 1 examines postmodernism. Chapter 2 explores history perceived as fact and as construct. Chapter 3 investigates the dissolution ...

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