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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"African authors"”.
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"Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors
… by these three racially distinct female South African authors. Since I propose that literature provides a link between a subjective history and the under-represented narratives from the margins, I use literature to reimagine these. I analyse the ways in which the authors present 'hybrid' …
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African authors' perceptions of women's achievements : exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts
In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who are said to disregard cultural expectations by aspring to achieve more than …
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A comparative study of ideology and aesthetics in the novels of selected South African isiXhosa-language writers and Kenyan African authors in English
… of a comparative methodology for the study of African literature, little scholarly effort has thus far been exerted to establish such a methodology. This study aims to make a small contribution in this direction by elaborating an appropriate comparative method and demonstrating its efficacy by …
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A Comparative Analysis of the influence of Folklore on the works of the following African writers: Chinua Achebe, Eskia Mphahlele, Ngungi wa Thiongo' and Andrew Nkadimeng: An Afrocentric approach
African authors play a significant role in passing on African folklore. Their writing is often influenced by their lived experiences and the social context embedded within folklore. Folklore houses the cultural beliefs, customs and traditions of a society and is passed on from one generation to the …
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Ballingskap en vervreemding in die werk van Vernon February en Julian de Wette (exile and estrangement in the work of Vernon February and Julian de Wette)
… Exile and alienation in the writing of South African authors are well document with a focus on writers like Alex La Guma, Dennis Brutus, Lewis Nkosi, Nat Nakasa and others. It received little attention in the Afrikaans literary studies. The development of identity in the work of black …
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Do Culturally Engaging Reading Materials Matter? An Analysis of Rural Libraries in Burkina Faso
… lack of culturally relevant reading materials in African libraries. Book collections are primarily composed of donated materials from western countries intended for a western, rather than African audience. This research project aimed to gain insight onto children’s reading preferences in the rural …
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Narrative technique and readerships in postcolonial African fiction : towards reception theory
[Missing pages] For sometime now studies of African fiction have neglected to explore what most African writers conceive of as a critical aspect of African literature -- the readerships of African texts. This preponderance in African criticism could probably be explained in terms of the fact that …
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Podcasting and the African diaspora in the United States
… who are producing podcasts for English-speaking Africans and African diaspora audiences in the United States. The study focuses on the types of podcast content produced, the target audience, the distribution platforms used, and the motivations of the podcasters who are actively targeting Africans …
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Religion of the ancient Basotho with special reference to "water snake"
… there has been very little attention given to African Traditional Religion in Southern Africa by both Western and African authors. It is not an easy area to research for it no longer exists in its undisturbed coherent form, but only as preserved in fragmented bits of culture. This thesis …
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Representations of post-apartheid black womanhood in the novels of Angela Makholwa and Kopano Matlwa
… Black womanhood in the selected novels of South African authors, Kopano Matlwa (2006 & 2016) and Angela Makholwa (2017/2018) by placing them within the context of the changes in South Africa from the time of apartheid to the present. This study shows how these women interpret, through writing, …
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… representations of the littoral in South African literature. It analyses literature published in three broad historical periods with the specific focus on the littoral as a setting from which authors imagine histories differently, often as a corrective, to challenge and wrestle with the …
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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
… ambivalence in many texts written by white South African authors. Texts that are generally designated as 'reconciliatory' or 'reconstitutive' have a latent imperative. The ambivalence of these texts is exposed by my analysis of two prominent South African novels, Marlene Van Niekerk's Triomf and …