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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"African literature"”.
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Madness in African literature : ambivalence, fluidity, and play
Madness in African Literature: Ambivalence, Fluidity, and Play examines how representations of madness in six literary pieces are used to reflect upon discourse.
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The Influence of New Media Technologies on African Literature
… of new media technologies in the development of African literature. It examines the different ways that these new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones have revolutionised the way Africans write and read literary works on the continent. African literature refers to literary works …
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Restoring the Earth: South African Literature and Environmental Justice
This dissertation investigates the ability of literature to enrich our understanding of environmental justice in South Africa. The aim of the project is to explore how literature and other forms of cultural imagining have provided a productive medium with which to conceptually reconfigure relations …
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White writings : colonialism and modernism in South African literature since 1970
… body of the literary activity of white South Africans since the 1970s can be characterised as a form of modernism. This characterisation devolves less upon the formal attributes of a body of literary writing than upon the particular position it occupies In the cultural sphere during this …
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Narratives Of The New Diaspora: Migration And Transnationalism In Contemporary African Literature
This dissertation examines narratives of the new African diaspora– texts that represent the experiences of a largely visible group of mobile Africans. This project calls for a new theory that pushes us to understand diaspora as an activity, a deliberate and continuous examination of various …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
… century have seen a number of authors of African origin and from the recent diaspora writing in English and French produce works of prose fiction that explore the Atlantic from the perspective of young African characters on the move through that space. This thesis examines a representative …
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Visions of the Rainbow : Constructions of South African identity in South African literature for adolescents
… that have been written in English, by South Africans in South Africa, which are set in South Africa and have been written specifically for adolescents. Five books that were published before 1994 and five that were published after 1994 were analysed in order to compare the way in which South …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… and interconnectedness in Palestinian and North African literature, exploring the entanglement of environmental degradation, colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital …
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Growing Queer: youth temporality and the ethics of group sex in contemporary Moroccan & South African literature
… similar declarations and crackdowns in other African countries that frame sexual and gender minorities as non-citizens.
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The role of African literature in enhancing critical literacy in first-genaration entrants at the University of Namibia
Diisertation presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University
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Decolonizing the Mind with Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe: Searching for a Voice in Postcolonial African Literature
<p>Any discussion of postcolonial African literature requires consideration of both the inherent diversity of “African” and the complex history of colonialism throughout Africa. Ngugi wa Thiong’o claims there are “broad affinities” among the diverse peoples of sub-Saharan Africa which allow for a …
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History in the literary imagination: the telling of Nongqawuse and the Xhosa Cattle-Killing in South African literature and culture (1891-1937)
… representations of this seminal moment in South African history: novels, plays, and short stories in English or English translation. The period under consideration encompasses the earliest literary responses to the Cattle-Killing and includes critical historical-political moments such as: the …
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Towards an understanding of the benefits of utilising Anglo-African literature as source material in the enrichment of mother tongue educational texts
… in south Africa. It has been suggested that literature be used in the development of home language education curricula. Independent research conducted for this thesis has led to the notion that educationdisadvantages created during the colonial and apartheid eras continue to restrainc …
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Engagement/involvement of staff from public medical Institutions with pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence - a systematic review of African & South African literature
… methodology used in this study was a systematic literature review, that reviewed 14 qualitative journal articles. PICo was used to identify the study participants, the Cochrane systematic review methodology was used and the PRISMA flow diagram. Using thematic analysis, the researcher used Dey and …
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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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A comparative analysis of Afrofuturism, magical realism and African mythology in Namwali serpell's The old drift and Marlon Jame's Black leopard red wolf: An afrocentric perspective
Afrofuturism, Magical Realism and African Mythology are genres in literary fiction that can be used by authors and writers to explore difficult themes, complex characters, speculative settings and experimental plot points. While studies of these genres in literature exist, there has not been …
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First Light
… that accompanies the myth and expectations of African literature and secondly and most importantly, to claim and make of the craft a space of freedom, devoid of any burdens or preassigned symbolic representation— a space where writing, rather than conditioned and shaped by several factors, …
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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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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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