• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Korpuslinguistiese ondersoek na pragmatiese merkers in Omgangsafrikaans 

  Fourie, Annamarie (2020-01)

  Pragmatiese merkers in Omgangsafrikaans dien as belangrike kontekstualiseringswenke. Dit rig gespreksgenote in terme van uitingrelevansie en stel die spreker in staat om, op bondige wyse, ’n houding teenoor die proposisie ...
• Gender and dramatic discourse with reference to Zakes Mda's selected plays. 

  Ntuli, Zanele Nonhlanhla (2019-09)

  This dissertation examines the multiplicity of social positions within which African women in the postcolonial era find themselves. It focuses on how the dramatic dialogue depicts the positions of women in Zakes Mda’sThe ...
• At the crossing-places: representations of masculinity in selected 21st century children's texts 

  Robertson, Janice (2019-06)

  This study explores the representations of masculinity in selected contemporary children’s adventure literature. According to John Stephens (2002:x), a problem for boys, both in narrative fictions and in the world, is that ...
• Dismembering and re-membering in J.M. Coetzee's selected fiction: a decolonial approach 

  Ndumiso, Ncube (2019-01)

  The present study deploys Ngugi wa Thiongo’s (2009) decolonial concepts of dismembering and re-membering to critically explore J. M Coetzee’s selected fiction. In my reading of the novels Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe ...
• Die spelende mens in KLIMTOL (Etienne van Heerden), AFSTANDE (Dan Sleigh) en SIRKUSBOERE (Sonja Loots) 

  Viljoen, Elizabeth Susanna (2018-12)

  Die ikoniese konsep van die spelende mens (homo ludens) - soos verwoord deur Johan Huizinga – verkry opnuut trefkrag weens ʼn hedendaagse bekoring met virtuele spel. Nel (2014; 2015a; 2015b), Burger (2013), Viljoen (2011; ...
• Die gesproke woord en ander ouditiewe middele in N.P. van Wyk Louw se radiodramas 

  Zaayman, Tertia (1980-12)

  Hierdie verhandeling handel oor die radiodramas van N.P. van Wyk Louw se afhanklikheid van die gesproke woord en die gebruik van ouditiewe middele ter ondersteuning daarvan. In radiodramas soos Dias, Kruger breek die pad ...
• Time erases whiteness altogether”? ’n Ondersoek na afrikaanse tekste oor die Kongo (DRK) (1912-2012) 

  Beer, Linde (2018-02)

  Hierdie studie van Afrikaanse tekste oor die Kongo (DRK) strek vanaf 1912 - toe DF Malan die eerste wit Afrikaner geword het wat ‘n reisbeskrywing oor sy besoek aan die Kongo gepubliseer het (Naar Congoland, 1913) - tot ...
• Die graderingsbeginsel by die adjektief in Afrikaans 

  Kruger, Pieter Andries (1977-12)

  The point of departure of the study is the 'Aspects'- model of a sentence, i.e. S +NP + VP. Predication is defined and a description is given of how predication and referent form a proposition. With the basic sentence ...

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