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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"African fiction"”.
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The rhetoric of African fiction
<p>Criticism of West African fiction has been both recent and various. Moving from the socio-anthropological concerns, to the negritude orientation, to the argument for commitment, to the search for an African or Black aesthetic, these discussions have not considered in any detail the formal …
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Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction
This project surveys representations of the African city in contemporary Nigerian and South African narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author …
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Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
Polygamy is widely practised in African communities. The African social-realist novel, especially when it is woman-authored, shows female characters as having to play docile, subservient roles and accept demeaning positions in polygamous marriages. Although it has been claimed that traditional …
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Hydrocolonialism, Scarcity, and Pollution: Reading for Water in African Fiction
… explores social and environmental concerns in African literary narratives through the lens of water. The study is an experiment in reading for water—a method of literary analysis that traces the sensory, political, and agentic power of water across narratives. My aim is twofold: First, to …
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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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“Coloured” Pasts in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction: Slavery, Gender, and Anachronism
… to the historical specificity of the South African context. At the same time, the novels considered here demand a reconsideration of the space of the nation itself. Invoking a broader history of slavery through their allusions to the North American slave narrative and to the types of forced …
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Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in some contemporary African fiction
… contemporary migration narratives by four African writers living in the diaspora and writing in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan, now living in Scotland and Spain respectively and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from Tanzania now residing in the UK and …
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At home in Fanon: Queer romance and mixed solidarities in contemporary African fiction
… of student activism that have gripped South African universities, Frantz Fanon has been continuously disinterred. But the figure of Fanon often remains both abstract and plural within its articulations - interpretations of his body of work performing sometimes only partial allegiances to the …
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The significance of space and setting : a critical analysis of selected South African fiction
… is to explore space and setting as used by South African fiction writers within the ideological framework of apartheid. Apartheid became the regime's preoccupation since 1948 and its ensuing social divisions impacted negatively on the Africans and the country's literature. The thesis consists of …
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A gift of stones
… shorthand for a stylistic drift in recent South African fiction. The deficiencies of journalism apropos prose fiction are discussed, and the author also considers the influence of photography on his prose fiction.
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The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
… A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that …
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Nostalgia, Home and Be-longing in Contemporary Postapartheid Fiction by Zakes Mda and Ivan Vladislavić
… Home and Be-Longing in Contemporary South African Fiction: Zakes Mda and Ivan Vladislavić Abstract The dissertation examines the representation of nostalgic longing and the question of home and belonging in selected South African novels by the contemporary writers Zakes Mda and Ivan …
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Talion: A tragedy
Talion is a work of fiction which follows four characters - Freya, whose brother Ben has recently been killed; Slick, a young drug dealer; Abraham, a school teacher; and Nolwazi, a Pretoria police detective - as they deal with the aftermath of a shooting in which they are all involved. Told is …
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From "sad black stories" to "useful tragedy": Trajectories of hope in Johannesburg from Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 to Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi
… being drawn upon by emerging black South African fiction writing on the city, and begins to trace connections between the two novels and other texts which have come to define the literary landscape of this field. The novels allow different approaches to these narratives to surface, while …
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Irony and otherness : a study of some recent South African narrative fiction
… of irony and otherness in selected recent South African fiction. Van Heerden's Kikoejoe, as an allegory of the refusal to narrativise otherness, is read as being caught in the double bind of irony; Matlou's Life at Home is read as a text intimating an otherness at the heart of domesticity and …
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Digital Wounds, Literary Testimony: Trauma, Trafficking, and Gendered Violence in Jackie Phamotse's Bare Series
… in an integrated theoretical framework combining African literary theory, feminist standpoint theory, trauma theory, and ethical literary criticism, this research illuminates how Phamotse's work constitutes a significant intervention in contemporary South African discourse on gendered violence, …
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Fantasy and politics in South African literature : a comparative study of the use of the fantastic in selected works of Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink
… to and explore historical and contemporary South African realities. In the Introduction, the imaginatively and aesthetically restricted nature of much English-language South African fiction during the apartheid era is examined. Many South African writers in English still seem unable to transcend …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on their equality to men and by allowing …
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
… in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical frameworks of affect theory, cultural translation, and new media as possible ways out of narrative rupture. These ways out of …
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