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Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature: Recent submissions

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Exploring muti murder and the supernatural in selected Southern African novels: the case for (magical) realism.

Makhedama, Buntu (2024)

This study explores the appropriateness of Western genre categories and cosmologies to understanding muti murder and other supernatural elements in selected southern African fiction namely Alexandra McCall-Smith’s The ...
Trance and transfiguration in rock art and literature

Northover, Richard Alan (2023-04-14)

What can San rock art research reveal about certain kinds of imaginative literature written in English? What do depictions of altered states of consciousness in literature reveal about human needs? In this lecture I explore ...
The role of narrational strategies in the fiction of Mandla Langa

Sibuyi, Dzunisani (2020-10-30)

This study deals with Mandla Langa’s deployment of narrational strategies in his narrative oeuvre. Through a structural narratological analysis of Langa’s discourse, the study reveals the role of the narrational strategies ...
Meat, sex, and power : an analysis of the world of Beastars

Van Huyssteen, Justin (2023-10-19)

This dissertation presents an examination and analysis of the world depicted in the Japanese mangaka/comic artist Itagaki Paru’s Beastars and Beast Complex serialised manga narratives. The analysis is comprised of three ...
Trauma, narrative and ethics in J.M. Coetzee’s selected fiction

Makoni, John (2022-12-15)

The traumatic encounter in J.M. Coetzee’s representation of colonialism is shown to facilitate the ethical evolvement of his protagonists. However, in order for characters to attain ethical salvation, it is necessary that ...
Onderskeidende stylkenmerke en pragmatiese funksies van Generasie X se SMS-Afrikaans

Ferreira, Johan Albert (2022-06-14)

Hierdie studie handel oor die onderskeidende stylkenmerke en pragmatiese funksies van Generasie X se SMS-Afrikaans. Die bron van die taaldata is ŉ WhatsApp-kletsgroep van 60 deelnemers wat aanvanklik geskep is om die ...
Aarde as argief: 'n geogebaseerde lesing van geselekteerde Karootekste deur Etienne van Heerden

Roothman, Linda (2022-02)

Die Antroposeen word deur Latour (2014) bestempel as die belangrikste konsep sedert die modernisme en verwys na ’n nuwe geologiese tydvak waar die mens as geomorfiese agent sigself op die aarde ingraveer. Binne dié konteks ...
Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community theatre plays, 1984–1994

Xaba, Andile (2021-10)

The focus of this study is on community theatre of a particular period and a specific place in South Africa, namely Soweto during the period 1984–1994. Three community theatre practitioners represent the best in artistic ...
Practices and challenges in implementing alternative assessment in communicative English skills course: the case of three Ethiopian universities

Motuma Hirpassa Minda (2022-02)

Prompted by increased concern about the quality of assessment, the present study investigated the practices and challenges in implementing an alternative assessment in a communicative English skills course at three Ethiopian ...
African humanism and character representation in Zakes Mda’s fiction: a socio-cultural and psychological approach

Sicwebu, Noel Zanoxolo (2021-09)

African humanism and ubuntu play crucial roles as a vehicle in Zakes Mda’s fiction, which he uses to demonstrate the full human potential of Africans and their pivotal role in community service. The study explored this ...
Writing against coloniality : dismembering and re-membering in Dangarembga’s novels

Munemo, Taurayi (2021-09)

This study explores Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988), The Book of Not (2006) and This Mournable Body (2018) through Ngugi’s decolonial concepts of dismemberment and re-membering, attempting to answer the question, ...
How to write the first draft of your short story

Roux, Alwyn (2021)

"The writing bus with Alwyn" is a creative writing program for each week of the semester. The program starts with "an introduction to the writing bus", explaining the basic concept of writing. Then, four screencasts focus ...
Die werkwoordstuk

Carney, Terrence (2021)

Hierdie hulpbron verduidelik hoe om werkwoordstukke te identifiseer.
Die naamwoordstuk

Carney, Terrence (2021)

Hierdie hulpbron verduidelik hoe om naamwoordstukke te identifiseer.
Sinstukke en stukbeelde

Carney, Terrence (2021)

Hierdie hulpbron verduidelik hoe om sinstukke en stukbeelde in Afrikaans te identifiseer.
From binary to dialogic: Chinua Achebe's critique of colonial stereotypes in Things fall apart, No longer at ease and Arrow of God

Button, Chiara Keren (2020)

This study examined Chinua Achebe’s representations of non-African characters in the African Trilogy, with the goal of determining how Achebe’s representations of characters with whom he did not share a cultural background ...
Kategorisering en prototipes

Carney, Terrence (2022)
Transgressive space and body in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime

Adeyelure Omotola Temitayo (2021-01)

Beyond the African boundaries, the black body is marked with an othered identity that often leaves its bearer open to discrimination. Being black is considered a transgression because, presumably, it constitutes deviance ...
How to write a poem

Roux, Alwyn (2021)
Dialek, sosiolek en idiolek

Grundlingh, Lezandra (2021)

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