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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"South African Literature"”.
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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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Visions of the Rainbow : Constructions of South African identity in South African literature for adolescents
This research aims to analyse how post-apartheid South Africa has been constructed as society and nation in fictional novels 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 …
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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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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: …
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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
… (IPV) experienced by pregnant women living in South Africa and Africa. This study aimed to investigate what protocols/pathways staff at public health care institutions (PHCI) use to identify, screen, report, record and refer instances of IPV. The motivation for this study was to bring awareness …
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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 …
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… explores 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 …
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Do CAPM anomaly variables provide real-time tradable opportunities on the JSE
… predictor variables selected on the basis of the South African literature (size, earnings yield and one-year lagged returns) fail to show any statistical evidence of predictability in realtime.
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The liberal ideology and some English South African novelists
… to mind when I first began reading white English south African literature. The question itself was quite simple: why is this literature like it is, and, more particularly, why is it a body of work whose quality is generally so mediocre? There is a general critical consensus that it is mediocre, …
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Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies
This study adds value to the South African literature on labour market policy evaluation and their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, …
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Wozanazo : a bio-bibliographical survey of twentieth-century Black South African women writers
The canon of South African literature, as shaped by publishers, academics and past government education policies, reflects dominant race, class, language and gender biases. Knowledge of large areas of South African literature is still limited by such biases. This research focuses on and seeks to …
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The performative nature of talk on commercial music radio in South Africa : the cases of 5FM, Metro FM and 94.5KFM
… thesis pays particular emphasis on initiating South African literature on the nature of talk on commercial music radio. There resides a general perception that music on music radio stations is the primary reason why listeners listen to radio, yet within music radio there are recognisable on-air …
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Transit oriented development in the South African context: an analytical review of Johannesburg's recent urban policy and strategy
… that the two phenomena are deeply interrelated. South Africa has not escaped these influences, but the picture is slightly nuanced. Apartheid spatial planning has defined the urban experience in contemporary South Africa. Many black people still live extraordinarily far from places of economic …
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"The host of vagabonds" : origins and destinations of the vagrant in Cape history and ideas
South African history in the crisis of the early 19th century, and South African literature ever since then, have been preoccupied with the vagrant in much the same manner and degree as was the European Renaissance. The subject of this thesis is the history and culture of vagrancy, and specifically …
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The protection of minority shareholders in South Africa: a reflection on the derivative action, appraisal rights and oppression remedy
This thesis will be conducted by reviewing South African literature that is published in various primary and secondary sources. The research will refer to key South African statutes namely, the South African Companies Act, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereafter referred …
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Dancing the Tiekiedraai : a socio-historic approach to Bosman's bushveld narratives
… 'Herman Charles Bosman' is a familiar one to South Africans, and his narratives have been celebrated widely for their skilful construction, their humour and the unique way in which they capture a segment of South African rural life. While Bosman is regarded as a significant figure in South …
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Guy Butler from a post-apartheid perspective : reassessing a South African literary life
Guy Butler was a substantial public figure in South Africa over the second half of the twentieth century: performer of chameleon literary roles (professor, poet, playwright, autobiographer and historian), as well as cultural politician and opponent of apartheid legislation. Nevertheless, his is not …
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Reading smallness: micro-spatial constructions in South Africa's literature of the interregnum
Twentieth-century South African literature is a subject often oversimplified by familiar binaries. These include the categories of apartheid and post-apartheid, metaphors of death and birth, and pre-occupations with the tensions between public and private life, township and suburb, and oppressor …
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The Role of education and fertility in the participation and employment of African women in South Africa
… way, to that understanding. Our focus is on African women, looking at the extent of the influence of education as well as fertility on their participation and employment. The paper begins with a review of labour supply theory, focusing on the basic model of labour force participation. This is …
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