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The unsettling of colonialist and nationalist spaces : John Eppel's writings on Zimbabwe

Moyo, Thamsanqa (2018-06)

The Rhodesian and Zimbabwean space-time involved the creation and adoption of hegemonic discourses that influenced ways of behavior, thinking, perceiving reality and particular ways of identity construction based on ...

Inside the house of truth : destruction and reconstruction of Can Themba

Mahala, Siphiwo (2017-11)

This study is, by its intention at any rate, an attempt at assembling the scattered fragments of Can Themba’s life to make a composite being out of the various existing phenomena that shaped the contours of his life in ...

Hans Christian Andersen's romantic imagination : exploring eighteenth and nineteenth century romantic conceptualisations of the imagination in selected fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Greyvensteyn, Annette (2018-07)

There are certain influences from the eighteenth and nineteenth century English and German romantic Zeitgeist that can be discerned in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. The role of the imagination stands out as a ...

The representation of marginalized voices and trauma in selected novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera

Sisimayi, Weston (2017-09)

My thesis focuses on the representation of marginalized voices and trauma in the selected fiction of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera. I analyze three novels written by the Yvonne Vera—Without a Name (1994), Under the ...

A return to Kristeva: reconstructing female voice in contemporary consumer society

Bouwer-Nirenstein, Athena Vanessa (2018-03)

There has been considerable debate amongst feminist scholars as to whether the normalization of cosmetic surgery positively impacts women, empowers women by promoting agency and choice (Gimlin 2002, Kuczynski 2006), or ...

Inside the house of truth : the construction, destruction and reconstruction of Can Themba

Mahala, Siphiwo (2017-11)

This study is, by its intention at any rate, an attempt at assembling the scattered fragments of Can Themba’s life to make a composite being out of the various existing phenomena that shaped the contours of his life in ...

Cosmogynesis: the female hero in Tanith Lee’s The winter players

Donaldson, Eileen (Literator, 2017)

The mass-appearance of female heroes in popular culture in recent decades may encourage the opinion that the female hero has achieved the same credibility as her male counterpart. This article demonstrates, however, that ...

In her bones: second wave “women’s time” in Tanith Lee’s The Winter Players

Donaldson, Eileen (scrutiny2, 2017)

During feminism’s second wave (circa 1960‒1980) a particular approach to time gained ground and was explored by many cultural feminist activists, thinkers and writers. This feminine time was conceived of as cyclical and ...

“See me”: how the uncanny double supports maturing girlhood in Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series

Donaldson, Eileen (Mousaion, 2017)

The Gothic double is an effective motif through which to explore the self’s relation to itself. But where traditional Gothic literature positions the protagonist and the double as antagonists, some contemporary literature ...

Lack of reading culture and literacy in the Namibian Educational System: Some propositions for social responsibilities

Ola-Busari, Josephine (Otjivanda Presse.Essen, 2016)

The poor level of proficiency in the English language among Namibian learners in tertiary education is sometimes attributed to a lack of reading culture and low literacy levels in the Namibian educational system. This ...

Ruptures in Harmonizing Discourses: Exemplifications in some Works of Black and White Writers in a Democratic South Africa

Rafapa, Lesibana (Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 2018-04)

Some writers have attempted a comparison of South African post-apartheid literature written by blacks with that produced by their white compatriots, as in Anne Putter’s (2012) enlightening analyses of Ivan Vladislavic’s ...

Theorising the environment in fiction: exploring ecocriticism and ecofeminism in selected black female writers’ works

Pasi, Juliet Sylvia (2017-09)

This thesis investigates the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world or natural environment in selected literary works by black female writers in colonial and post-colonial Namibia and Zimbabwe. Some Anglo-American ...

Indigeneity in modernity: The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo

Rafapa, Lesibana (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018-01-26)

The study of South African English literature written by black people in the post-apartheid period has focused, among others, on the so-called Hillbrow novels of Phaswane Mpe and Niq Mhlongo, and narratives such as Kgebetli ...

Designing and implementing mobile-based interventions for enhancing English vocabulary in ODL

Shandu-Phetla, Thulile Pearl (2017-06)

Students in Open Distance Learning (ODL) face a myriad of challenges including a low proficiency in English. While research has identified vocabulary as important in improving language proficiency and the pertinent role ...

Speaking back : expanding paradigms in Middle East film

Stubbs, Evelyn (2017-02)

This thesis undertakes a study of four films, directed by Arab directors from Palestine, Lebanon, America and the United Arab Emirates, and argues that these works speak back to the negative representation of Arabs in ...

Crafting positions : representations of intimacy and gender in The Sentients of Orion

Boshoff, Dorothea (2017-03)

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, ...

The impact of pre-service primary English language teacher training on post-training practice

Temesgen Daniel Bushiso (2017-05)

This study sought to investigate the impact of pre-service primary school English language teachers’ training on their post-training practice. A constructive research paradigm and qualitative method were used in the study. ...

The content, handling and role of oral history in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Research Institute for Theology and Religion of the University of South Africa, 2013)

The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) has been documented as an AIC the trope of Christian religion of which is tampered with Africanism. Such an Africanism encapsulates the valuing of oral history and other aspects of orature ...

The victimisation of genius : Mary Robinson's idealisation of the female author in sensibility literature during the decade of the 1790's

Dalldorf, Tamaryn J. (2017-01)

Mary Robinson’s perceived entrapment within masculine discourse has led to a somewhat distorted portrayal of this author as ‘victim’: critical focus on how she and eighteenth-century society may have constructed her authorial ...

Gender violence and resistance : representation of women's agency in selected literary works by Zimbabwean female writers

Naidoo, Salachi (2016)

The aim of this study is to offer a critical analysis of representations of gender violence and resistance to such violence in selected novels by Zimbabwean women writers. A great deal of scholarship on Zimbabwean women ...

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