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Foukara, Abderrahim. "Alienation in South African literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287285.

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Akidiva, Arbogast Kemoli. "Radio and literature in Africa, Lee Nichols' Conversations with African writers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21545.pdf.

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Boehmer, Elleke Deirdre. "Mothers of Africa : representations of nation and gender in post-colonial African literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:83a022a0-e965-4dc3-b88f-267ff6903b6a.

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A protean doctrine, claiming cultural pride and demanding self-expression for those who espouse it, nationalism yet casts its defining symbols and reserves its privileges and powers according to gendered criteria. Nationalism, if seen as symbolically constructed, may be interpreted as a gendered discourse in which subjects in history and also in literature are assumed to be male. Especially in the Manichean worlds of colonial and newly post-colonial societies, nationalist narratives - such as those produced at the time of African independence - read as family dramas in which honour and duty ar

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Blaise, Aboua Kumassi Koffi. "Macunaíma / Kaydara: dois espelhos face a face. Ler Macunaíma sem rir." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-12092012-120553/.

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Explorar outros caminhos, até agora pouco seguidos, no intuito de participar de forma pertinente do debate acerca da inteligibilidade de Macunaíma de Mário de Andrade, isto, pode ser considerado o eixo que norteia este estudo comparado. Para levar adiante esta pesquisa comparativa apelamos para Kaydara, não apenas por ser uma obra prima da literatura africana de expressão francesa, mas também porque traz o olhar de dentro para fora de uma sociedade tradicional africana, capaz de dialogar com a literatura brasileira a ponto de lançar luz sobre alguns elementos culturais de origem afro-brasilei

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Pearse, Adetokunbo. "Aspects of madness in contemporary African literature." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250284.

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Bennett, Jessica. "National Identity in South African Children's Literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3584.

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National identity is an important characteristic of a country and helps to create a sense of national unity between its citizens. Identity is a learned concept that develops at a young age from children's surroundings and interactions. According to Martyn Barrett, this sense of National identity is present as early as the age of 5, with children gaining greater understanding of the significance of national identity to the age of 11. During this time period, picture books play a major role in childhood development. Using picture books to help create a positive, unified sense of national identit

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Luther, Carola. "South African theatre." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375957.

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Poikāne-Daumke, Aija. "African diasporas : Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience /." Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015425726&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Halil, Karen. "Conjuring power in Caribbean and African-American literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/NQ39535.pdf.

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Gibson, Ebony Z. "Art for whose Sake?: Defining African American Literature." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/aas_theses/17.

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This exploratory qualitative study describes the criteria that African American Literature professors use in defining what is African American Literature. Maulana Karenga’s black arts framework shaped the debates in the literature review and the interview protocol; furthermore, the presence or absence of the framework’s characteristics were discussed in the data analysis. The population sampled was African American Literature professors in the United States who have no less than five years experience. The primary source of data collection was in-depth interviewing. Data analysis involved open

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Cousins, Helen Rachel. "Conjugal wrongs : gender violence in African women's literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6934/.

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This thesis considers ways in which African women writers are exploring the subject of violence against women. Any attempt to apply feminist criticism to novels by African women must be rooted in a satisfactorily African feminism. Therefore, the history of black feminist thought is outlined showing how African feminisms have been articulated in dialogue with western feminists, black feminisms (developed by women in the African-American diaspora), and through recognition of indigenous ideologies which allowed African women to protest against oppression. Links will be established between the tex

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Himmelman, Natasha. "Madness in African literature : ambivalence, fluidity, and play." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3582.

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Word processed copy.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>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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Ewing, Maureen Colleen. "South African women's literature and the ecofeminist perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007808.

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A social-constructionist ecofeminist perspective argues that patriarchal society separates the human (or culture) from nature, which causes a false assumption that humanity possesses the right, as a superior species, to dominate nature. This perspective integrates the domination of nature with social conflicts, including but not limited to racial discrimination, gender oppression, and class hierarchies. Understanding how these various forms of oppression interrelate forms the main goal of an ecofeminist perspective. Since the nature-culture, female-male, and whitenonwhite conflicts resonate an

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van, Heerden Imke. "The vulnerable body in contemporary South African literature." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10686/.

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This thesis examines a selection of South African literary texts written in English and published after 2000, arguing that these works of literature illustrate the ways in which the exigencies of the vulnerable body – brutal violence, HIV/AIDS, and social inequality – complicate attempts to transcend discrimination in contemporary South Africa. Consequently, the study concentrates on representations of the vulnerable body that specifically destabilise fixed categories of identity, thus instantiating the literary ethics of interconnection that comprises its main focus. Each of the five chapters

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Hinton-Johnson, KaaVonia Mechelle. "Expanding the power of literature African American literary theory & young adult literature /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054833658.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 175 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Caroline Clark, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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Stricklin, Rita Katherine. ""A Site of Invasion: Representations of Home in 20th Century South African Literature"." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1523015006047659.

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Azambuja, Márcio Passos de. "Fonte, fluxo e foz : filosofia africana em Mãe, materno mar de Boaventura Cardoso." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/132833.

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Este estudo tem por objetivo observar relações entre a filosofia africana e a literatura africana produzida em Angola por Boaventura Cardoso e sua troca de influências atuais. Particularmente focando no aspecto que retrata os elementos constituintes dessa filosofia de matriz africana de acordo com os trabalhos de Paulin Hountondji, Henry Odera Oruka, Kwasi Wiredu, Wamba-Dia-Wamba e Sophie Oluwole articulando seus conceitos, suas manifestações e influências na cultura, política, religião, sociedade e educação angolana retratados na narrativa de Mãe, Materno Mar. Ao investigar e mapear a inserçã

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Rountree, Wendy Alexia. "THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997212820.

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Gotz, Hanna Betina. "Luso-African Real Maravilloso? : a study on the convergence of Latin American and Luso-African literatures /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204280871.

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Roupenian, Kristen Carol. "Dodging the Question: Language, Politics, and the Life of a Kenyan Literary Magazine." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11239.

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This dissertation investigates the artistic and linguistic strategies employed by the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? during a period of intense social and political upheaval. Between the peaceful end of Daniel Arap Moi's dictatorship in 2002 and the violence that followed the contested Presidential elections of 2007, writers for the magazine used a language called sheng&mdasha youth-affiliated urban slang comprised of a complex, rapidly shifting blend of Kiswahili, English, and other local languages&mdashto negotiate between the global hunger for English and their country's complex cultural,

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Kamali, Leila Francesca. "Spectres of the shore : the memory of Africa in contemporary African-American and Black British fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4110/.

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This study considers the approach in recent African-American and Black British fiction toward the cultural memory of Africa. Following a brief consideration of the relationship between contemporary conceptions of African-American and Black British cultural identities, I examine the ways in which the imaginative journeys and geographies, evoked by the ideals of Africa and 'Africanness', are employed in the negotiation of historical memory, and in the endeavour to situate black identity in the context of contemporary American and British society. My discussion addresses these questions, initiall

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Williams, Jennifer D. "Re-Membering madness in Africana Women's Literature." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1998. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/655.

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This thesis examined the motif of madness in four literary works by Africana women: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power. The study was based on the premise that Africana women’s literature serves a receptive purpose. The primary goal was to demonstrate fictionalized madness as a social metaphor and to show how it relates to the existential realities of black women. A deconstructionist approach was used to analyze the four novels, and, a convergence of feminist and Afrocentric theories wa

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Taylor, Corey Michael. "Ambiguous sounds African American music in modernist American literature /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 253 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654487481&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Stayton, Corey C. "The Kongo cosmogram: A theory in African-American literature." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1972.

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This study examines the use of Kongo cosmology as a theory of reading African-American literature. By analyzing the philosophical modes and belief systems of the Bakongo people, a general view of their cosmos is constructed and establishes the Kongo cosmogram used as the basis of this study. The community, crossroads, elders, and circularity of life all prove to be crucial elements in the Kongo cosmogram. These elements all have respective roles in the operation of the Kongo cosmogram as a literary theory. As the focus shifts from Africa to America, a study of how the Kongo cosmogram is disrup

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Isong, Anietie. "The influence of new media technologies on African literature." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/16405.

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This study investigates the role 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 written mostly by Africans in any language. Over the last decade, new African writers have created a stir in the arenas of creative writing. Uses and gratification as well as diffusion of innovation theories were adopted as the theoretical framework for this study. A tota

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Rees, Jennifer. "Masculinity and sexuality in South African border war literature." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5451.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores masculinity and sexuality, hegemonic and “deviant” in the nation state of the old apartheid South Africa, by addressing aspects of fatherhood, boyhood and motherhood in white, predominantly Afrikaans family narratives. In doing this, I explore the ways in which the young boys in texts such as The Smell of Apples (1995), by Mark Behr, and moffie (2006), by André Carl van der Merwe, are systematically groomed to become the ideal stereotype of masculinity at the time: rugged, intelligent, succe

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Robertson, Vida A. "The Racial Pharmakon: Investigating Albinism in African American Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1146224861.

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O'Meara, Patrick Carleton University Dissertation English. "Invisibility and interpretation; history and hope in African literature." Ottawa, 1987.

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Carter, Bryan. "Left behind : passing through African American literature to posthumanity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3025609.

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Spiga, Giordano. "European newspaper reviewing of African literature in the 1980s." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29284/.

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This piece of research aims at analysing newspaper reviews of African literature in four European countries (Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy) in the 1980s. It also aims at demonstrating that the figure of the so-called 'committed' reviewer still exists. The survey is based on a body of approximately 300 reviews taken from 14 newspapers. Some of the papers represent the main national dailies; others may be regarded as representative of different ideological stances. In order to deal with as many aspects as possible of newspaper criticism, the thesis is divided into three parts, in which

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Macleod, Catriona. "Theory and South African developmental psychology research and literature." UCT Press, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015326.

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In this chapter we shall examine the theoretical assumptions that drive developmental psychology research and literature in South Africa. The basic underlying models utilised in developmental research may be described as (a) mechanistic; (b) organismic; (c) contextual and (d) social constructionist. A description of the fundamental premises of each of these will be followed by examples of research that utilise the particular approach. In the discussion, some of the controversies that plague developmental psychology research will be highlighted.

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Phetlhe, Keith. "Decolonizing Translation Practice as Culture in Postcolonial African Literature and Film in Setswana Language." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1585864989276825.

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Christian, Dadie Kacou. "Um africano lê Macunaíma: uma interpretação da rapsódia de Mário de Andrade com base em elementos literários e culturais negro-africanos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-20122007-140038/.

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No âmbito da literatura brasileira, Macunaíma de Mário de Andrade é uma obra cuja complexidade formal é amplamente reconhecida. Para sua abordagem, tal complexidade leva geralmente à sondagem de duas fontes principais: a Europa (as vanguardas européias) e as culturas indígenas (explicação mítica). Nossa tese investiga essa questão formal, uma das preocupações da arte moderna, recorrendo a uma literatura periférica: a literatura negro-africana de língua francesa. Descobrimos que Mário de Andrade e o escritor negro-africano fundamentam-se na tradição e na oralidade para construir suas obras. Des

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Clark, Jacqueline Kim. "Visions of the Rainbow : Constructions of South African identity in South African literature for adolescents." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10251.

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Bibliography: leaves 99-104.<br>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 published before 1994 and five that were published after 1994 were analysed in order to compare the way in which South Africa is depicted in the novels written during and after apartheid.

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Jakubiak, Katarzyna Dykstra Kristin. "Performing translation the transnational call-and-response of African diaspora literature /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276391711&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1200674412&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on January 18, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Kristin Dykstra (chair), Christopher Breu, Christopher DeSantis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-237) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Mbao, Wamuwi. "Imagined pasts, suspended presents South African literature in the contemporary moment." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002244.

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Scholarship on Post-Apartheid South African literature has engaged in various ways with the politics of identity, but its dominant mode has been to understand the literature through an anxious rupture-continuation paradigm in which the Apartheid past manifests itself in the present. However, in the contemporary moment, there are writers whose texts attempt to forge new paths in their depictions of identities both individual and collective. These texts are useful in contemplating how South Africans experience belonging and dislocation in various contexts. In this thesis, I consider a range of c

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Hester-Williams, Kim D. "(Re) making freedom : representation and the African American modernist text /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9945691.

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Kumbalonah, Abobo. "Mobility and the Representation of African Dystopian Spaces in Film and Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1439460633.

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Kreuz, Jill. "Shakespeare on South African television." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21692.

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This study undertakes the analysis of the eight productions of Shakespeare that were produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice (1987). The SABC has also televised two stage productions by performing arts councils; these are Romeo en Juliet (1982) and The Winter's Tale (1988). The approach I have taken is a cultural materialist one. The television pr

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Abdourahman, Ismaël Monneyron M. Frederic. "Aspects du fantastique et romans négro-africains." Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/58432535.html.

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Drame, Siacka. "Trois exemples du personnage feminin dans le roman francophone d’Afrique subsaharenne: salimata, perpetue et laokole." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13276.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Claire L. Dehon<br>Francophone Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa is an important indicator of the extent of the awakening by African people to their realities that link them to the past and the present. Novels of prominence written from the sixties to the nineties demonstrate how well their authors appreciate the characteristics of their societies. In this respect, some African writers such as Mongo Beti, Regina Yaou and Emmanuel Dongala in their respective works The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma, Perpétua and the Habit of Unhappi

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De, Beer Esther. "Spicing South Africa: representations of food and culinary traditions in South African contemporary art and literature." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20027.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Francoise Vergés comments in her essay Let’s Cook! that “one could write the history of a people, of a country, of a continent by writing the history of its culinary habits” (250 ). Vergés here refers to the extent to which food can be seen to document and record certain events or subjectivities. Exploring a wide range of texts spanning the late 1800s up to the post-apartheid present, this thesis focuses in particular on the ways in which “spice” as commodity, ingredient or symbol is employed to articulate and/or embed creo

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Husain, Fatima. "Cultural discourse on the Muslim woman in African francophone literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ41551.pdf.

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Agyepong, Rosina. "Gender and African education, a critical analysis of the literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58887.pdf.

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Peterson, Tamalyn. "An Examination of Secrecy in Twentieth-Century African American Literature." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/110.

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This dissertation examines the legacy of secrecy, silences, and the unspoken in twentieth century African American literary texts. Using a range of texts representing various eras within the genre of African American literature, this dissertation contends that secrecy is a trope and may be attributed to inherited, maintained traditional practices from West and West Central Africa. Having read a number of African American texts and connecting my personal experiences with these works, I noticed a pattern of withheld discourse throughout. Most notably, Leslie Lewis’s Telling Narratives posits a r

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Graham, Lucy Valerie. "State of peril : Race and rape in South African literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527312.

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Austen, Benjamin. "Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18419.

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This paper will examine moments in literature where the narratives of baseball as American myth and those involving African Americans converge, moments where authors confront (either consciously or not) the implications of both narratives within the same shared space. It is at these moments of convergence that the mythic language surrounding the game and its interaction with African Americans are thrown into dramatic relief. A myth, says Roland Barthes in his Mythologies, is a kind of "metalanguage," a narrative which refers to and talks about another narrative; it is at least twice removed fr

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Brown, Michelle Lynn. "Screams somehow echoing trauma and testimony in Anglophone African literature /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8539.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Tucker, Kaylen Danielle. "Racial choice at century's end in contemporary African American literature." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8766.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak the creative transformation of women in African literature /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08022006-130211/.

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