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Vlies, Andrew Edward van der. "Constructing South African literatures in Britain, 1880-1980." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403989.
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Craddock, Tina. "Intergenerational trauma in African and Native American literatures." Thesis, East Carolina University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1558803.
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<p> The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. Slavery, according to the Abolition Project, refers to "a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work" (e2bn.org, 2009). Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart researched the concept of historical trauma as it relates to American Indians, whereby she found that trauma due to unresolved grief, disenfranchised grief, and unresolved internalized oppression could continue to manifest itself through many generations. This thesis will examine the intergenerational effects of historical trauma as they are depicted in selected African and Native bildungsromans. These specific works were chosen because they allow me to compare and contrast how subsequent generations of these two cultures were still being directly affected by colonialism, especially as it pertains to the loss of their identities. It also allows me to reflect on how each of the main characters, all on the cusp of adulthood, make choices for their respective futures based on events that occurred long before they were born. </p><p> Chapters One and Two highlight specific works from African American authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Walker's novel, <i>The Color Purple, </i> depicts the life of an African American girl in the rural South of the 1930s. In this work I will examine how the loss of the male traditional role of provider and protector has affected the family dynamics and led to the male assuming the role of oppressor. In Morrison's <i>Song of Solomon, </i> I will examine the importance of identity and how one man's flight from slavery has affected the family structure of four subsequent generations. Both of the protagonists, Celie and Milkman, were born free, and yet still feel enslaved, just as their ancestors were, by their lack of choices as well as their quest for purpose and personal justice. </p><p> Chapters Three and Four will discuss literary works by Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, both vocal advocates of educating the lost generations—those who were forbidden to learn of and practice their language or tribal rituals due to colonialism—as well as Anglo-Americans on the importance of preserving the culture and heritage of their people. In Erdrich's <i>The Round House,</i> young Joe Coutts' family is tragically ripped apart by a physically violent attack on his mother. In an attempt to discover the truth of what really happened and who harmed her, Joe embarks on a journey in which borders, both literal and figurative, jurisdiction, and justice will be defined. The choices made by Joe, the adolescent, will have a direct impact on the evolution of Joe, the adult. In Alexie's <i> Flight,</i> Zits is a fifteen year old boy who seemingly belongs nowhere and to no one. It is this lack of identity that initially leads him down a path of destruction and on a magical journey of self-discovery where he will learn that he has within himself the ability to overcome his own personal tragedies, define who he is, and find happiness. The final chapter introduces the concept of restorative justice, a legal term that emphasizes repairing the harm done to crime victims through a process of negotiation, mediation, victim empowerment and reparations. I will also briefly discuss how both African and Native people are reclaiming their cultural identities through naming, ceremony, and traditions. I will briefly define a new concept developed by Dr. Joy Deruy Leary, referred to as post traumatic slave syndrome, and will show that like historical response trauma, its symptoms can be traced back generations to the enslavement of African people. I will argue that justice, identity and the lack of choices are major themes identified in each of these works which tie them all together. I will also argue that these themes have a direct correlation to the signs and symptoms of both Historical Response Trauma and Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome as defined by Dr. Braveheart and Dr. Leary, and how ultimately each of these protagonists used some means of restorative justice to stop the cycle of trauma and begin the process of healing </p>
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Saliwa-Mogale, Ncebakazi Faith. "Development and empowerment of previously-marginalised languages: a case of African languages in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33954.
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South Africa is a multilingual country with 11 official languages and 9 of these languages are Indigenous African languages. The South African government has developed policies and created an environment for these languages to be developed. National and provincial language policies have been adopted and the country has even passed a language Act called the Use of Official Languages Act, 2012. The national Department of Education has also passed policies and Acts that enable indigenous languages to be made compulsory to all learners in all public schools in the foundation phase. Despite all these efforts, very little has been done to implement these policies. The aim of this study is to interrogate the role played by these language bodies in the implementation of the National Language Policies, particularly the development and empowerment of these previously marginalized languages. Using textual analysis, questionnaires and interviews, the study identified the bottlenecks in the system that hinder the development of these languages. Amongst the many obstructions that were uncovered, is the increased economic benefit associated with English and how this continues to undermine efforts to elevate the status of African languages. Further, this linguistic hegemony has created a situation where speakers of the nine indigenous African languages are denied access to social, economic and political developments of the country, a clear violation of language rights enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa. The study concludes by making recommendations on steps that can be taken to develop African languages in South Africa.
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Daverni, Rodrigo Ferreira. "Um rio entre duas mundividências : leituras do espaço em "Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra", de Mia Couto /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94146.
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Orientador: Sidney Barbosa<br>Coorientador: Ozíris Borges Filho<br>Banca: Tania Celestino de Macedo<br>Banca: Maria Lúcia Outeiro Fernandes<br>Resumo: O romance Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2002), do autor moçambicano Antonio Emílio Leite Couto, comumente conhecido como Mia Couto, evidencia, por meio de uma ficção, uma proposta de revitalização, pela via do literário, da sociedade moçambicana. Nessa perspectiva, sua poética repousa em uma relação dialética que se funda, sobretudo, entre a permanência (representada ou registrada pela existência do bairro rural denominado Luar-do-Chão) e a ausência (cidade, espaço da narrativa dedicado ao desenvolvimento, progresso e conforto, mas também o da perda da memória tribal, dos sentimentos, etc.), ambas demarcadas pela espacialidade. O presente trabalho tem por finalidade demonstrar como algumas temáticas comuns às literaturas africanas aparecem representadas na espacialidade do universo diegético miacoutiano. Isso acontece sobretudo no que toca ao espaço da convivência das diferenças culturais, colaborando dessa maneira com uma melhor compreensão teórica desse importante aspecto essencial de toda narrativa ficcional. Em Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, o personagem Marianinho, protagonista e narrador da história, após anos estudando na cidade (moderna), retorna à sua ilha de origem, Luar-do-Chão (religiosa e mítica), por ocasião da morte de seu avô Dito Mariano, o patriarca da família. Ao sabor de um romance policial, muitas peripécias serão desveladas na trajetória de todos os personagens, configurando uma narrativa que prende a atenção do leitor de maneira marcante. A viagem empreendida por Mariano, quando deixa a cidade em que fora estudar as Letras para regressar à ilha de Luar-do-Chão, não diz respeito apenas a uma mudança de espaço geográfico, mas implica também numa mudança de sua condição humana e cultural e de sua visão... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)<br>Abstract: The novel Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2002), written by the Mozambican author Antonio Emílio Leite Couto, commonly known as Mia Couto, evidences through a fiction a revitalization proposal, through literary way, of Mozambican society. In this perspective its poetic rests in a dialetic relation that founds itself specially between the permanence (represented or registered by the rural neighborhood called Luar-do-Chão existence) and the absence (city, narrative space dedicated to the development, progress and comfort, but also the space of the tribal space loss, of the feelings loss, etc.), both flagged by spatiality. This report aims to show how some themes common to African literatures appear represented in the spatiality of Mia Couto's diegetic universe. This happens specially with regard to the cultural differences companionship space, collaborating this way with the better theoretical comprehension of this important essential aspect of all fictional narrative. In Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, the character Marianinho, the story protagonist and narrator, after years studying at the city (modern), returns to his birthplace island, Luar-do-Chão (religious and mystic), on the occasion of his grandfather's death, Dito Mariano, the family's patriarch. Tasting like a police novel many incidents will be uncovered on the all character's trajectory, configuring a narrative that holds the reader's attention in a remarkable way. The trip endeavor by Mariano, when he lefts the city in which he went to study the Arts to regress to the island Luar-do-Chão, does not concern only to a geographic space changing, but also implicates a changing in his human and cultural condition and worldview. It is what the city (capitalist, urban and progressive) had transformed him into. To the voyager hero... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)<br>Mestre
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Rooks, Elinor Victoria. "Vernacular critique, Deleuzo-Guattarian theory and cultural historicism in West African and Southern African literatures." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9192/.
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In this thesis I use concepts from Deleuzo-Guattarian theory, combined with a vernacular theoretical understanding, to perform cultural historicist readings of texts that lack clear contextual referents, as I demonstrate with an extended close reading of Amos Tutuola’s problematic classic The Palm-Wine Drinkard; I then demonstrate the approach’s versatility by using it to read a very different text, Bessie Head’s A Question of Power. Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard draws on vernacular theories of the bush common across West Africa, in which the bush is a discursive space for exploring personal and social traumas. Tutuola’s Bush of Ghosts, I argue, engages with the Yoruba Wars, the slave trade, and colonial capitalist development of Nigeria to the mid-twentieth century. I demonstrate not only how Tutuola uses ghosts as critical historical tools, but how he develops a peculiarly open textual space which serves as an alternative and a challenge to developmental trends. From history enacted across ghostly landscape I move to politics as a highly personal nightmare in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power. From communal vernacular theoretical traditions, I move to Head’s ‘schizophrenic’ vernacular theories. I argue that this text speaks to contexts far beyond Head’s personal experience of Apartheid. I read it as a schizohistory of Botswana’s developmental and political history, and as a lament of authoritarian tendencies across Africa a decade after independence. Head combines politics with mysticism, drawing on Hinduism to forge a politics of interconnectedness. Texts like Tutuola’s and Head’s become far more accessible through historicist readings, and these readings become possible once we are equipped with a theoretical vocabulary flexible enough to translate across a wide variety of discursive spheres. The approach I demonstrate encourages and facilitates a more interdisciplinary and contextually-grounded approach to African literature, clarifying formerly obscure texts.
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Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline. "Gender, history and trauma in Zimbabwean and other African literatures." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/582336/1/PhDPDodgson-Katiyo.pdf.
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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research explores Zimbabwean literary and other cultural texts within the broader context of the construction of identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in nationalist and oppositional discourses. It also analyzes two texts by major non-Zimbabwean African writers to examine the thematic links between Zimbabwean and other African writing.
Through combining historical, anthropological and political approaches with postcolonial, postmodern and feminist critical theories, the thesis explores the ways in which African writing and performance represent alternative histories to official versions of the nation. It further investigates questions of gender and their significance in nationalist discourses and shows how writing on war, trauma and healing informs and develops readers’ understanding of the relationship of the past to the present.
Considered together as a coherent body of work, the published items submitted in this thesis explore how Zimbabwean and other African writers, through re-visioning history and writing from oppositional or marginal positions, intervene in political debates and suggest new transformative ways of constructing and negotiating identities in postcolonial societies.
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Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline. "Gender, history and trauma in Zimbabwean and other African literatures." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/582336/.
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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research explores Zimbabwean literary and other cultural texts within the broader context of the construction of identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in nationalist and oppositional discourses. It also analyzes two texts by major non-Zimbabwean African writers to examine the thematic links between Zimbabwean and other African writing. Through combining historical, anthropological and political approaches with postcolonial, postmodern and feminist critical theories, the thesis explores the ways in which African writing and performance represent alternative histories to official versions of the nation. It further investigates questions of gender and their significance in nationalist discourses and shows how writing on war, trauma and healing informs and develops readers’ understanding of the relationship of the past to the present. Considered together as a coherent body of work, the published items submitted in this thesis explore how Zimbabwean and other African writers, through re-visioning history and writing from oppositional or marginal positions, intervene in political debates and suggest new transformative ways of constructing and negotiating identities in postcolonial societies.
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Osaghae, Esosa O. "Mythic reconstruction : a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.
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Osaghae, Esosa. "Mythic reconstruction: a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures." Thesis, Osaghae, Esosa (2007) Mythic reconstruction: a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/239/.
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This thesis seeks to explore the intention of postcolonial Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous South African postcolonial writers in reconstructing cultural and historical myths. The predominant concerns of this thesis are the issues of Representation and Historiography as they are constructed in the four primary texts namely Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, The Heart of Redness, The Kadaitcha Sung and Woza Albert!
It begins with a summary journey into the concepts of the postcolonial, presenting some of the challenges with which the concept has been confronted finding nonetheless it enabling as an 'anticipatory discourse' in appreciating the literatures from once-colonised nations such as Australia and South Africa.
I then take a cursory look at the concept of myth while focussing on how writers like Sam Watson and Barney, Mtwa and Mbogeni put such cultural myths as the Biamee deity in The Kadaitcha Sung and the second coming of Jesus in Woza Albert! to use.
In the next section, I focus on how the writers Mudrooroo (then Colin Johnson) in Australia and Mda from South Africa confront and reconstruct some of the historical myths upon which European colonialism was founded, using the texts, Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World and The Heart of Redness.
The achievement of this thesis has simply been one of the canonical expansions recommended of postcolonial criticism; the stressing an appreciation of the differences that exist even when postcolonial writers seek to achieve the same goal with their literatures.
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Osaghae, Esosa. "Mythic reconstruction: a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures." Osaghae, Esosa (2007) Mythic reconstruction: a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/239/.
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This thesis seeks to explore the intention of postcolonial Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous South African postcolonial writers in reconstructing cultural and historical myths. The predominant concerns of this thesis are the issues of Representation and Historiography as they are constructed in the four primary texts namely Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, The Heart of Redness, The Kadaitcha Sung and Woza Albert!
It begins with a summary journey into the concepts of the postcolonial, presenting some of the challenges with which the concept has been confronted finding nonetheless it enabling as an 'anticipatory discourse' in appreciating the literatures from once-colonised nations such as Australia and South Africa.
I then take a cursory look at the concept of myth while focussing on how writers like Sam Watson and Barney, Mtwa and Mbogeni put such cultural myths as the Biamee deity in The Kadaitcha Sung and the second coming of Jesus in Woza Albert! to use.
In the next section, I focus on how the writers Mudrooroo (then Colin Johnson) in Australia and Mda from South Africa confront and reconstruct some of the historical myths upon which European colonialism was founded, using the texts, Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World and The Heart of Redness.
The achievement of this thesis has simply been one of the canonical expansions recommended of postcolonial criticism; the stressing an appreciation of the differences that exist even when postcolonial writers seek to achieve the same goal with their literatures.
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Grier, Lara Anne. "Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements." University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13659.
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\<br>Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, African identity, urban style, or a particular reified postapartheid togetherness and cultural mobility. In this dissertation I analyse six television advertisements, all using African languages or language varieties, broadcast over the years starting 2010 through to 2014. I reflect on how and why the African language is used and to what extent African languages are no longer seen by television advertisers as carriers of information but as exploitable symbols of trustworthiness, multiculturalism, belonging and innovation. Methodology includes interviews with agencies, sociolinguistic analyses of the varieties used, detail on brands and products represented by the language and a small pilot study with viewers to ascertain their responses to the six selected advertisements.
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Hart, Carolyn Jean. "Cross-cultural innovations in African and African diasporic literatures : creation, production and reception of transgressive texts." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429319.
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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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com, esosaghae@yahoo, and Esosa Osaghae. "Mythic Reconstruction: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and South African Literatures." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.
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This thesis seeks to explore the intention of postcolonial Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous South African postcolonial writers in reconstructing cultural and historical myths. The predominant concerns of this thesis are the issues of Representation and Historiography as they are constructed in the four primary texts namely Dr Wooreddys Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, The Heart of Redness, The Kadaitcha Sung and Woza Albert!
It begins with a summary journey into the concepts of the postcolonial, presenting some of the challenges with which the concept has been confronted finding nonetheless it enabling as an anticipatory discourse in appreciating the literatures from once-colonised nations such as Australia and South Africa.
I then take a cursory look at the concept of myth while focussing on how writers like Sam Watson and Barney, Mtwa and Mbogeni put such cultural myths as the Biamee deity in The Kadaitcha Sung and the second coming of Jesus in Woza Albert! to use.
In the next section, I focus on how the writers Mudrooroo (then Colin Johnson) in Australia and Mda from South Africa confront and reconstruct some of the historical myths upon which European colonialism was founded, using the texts, Dr Wooreddys Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World and The Heart of Redness.
The achievement of this thesis has simply been one of the canonical expansions recommended of postcolonial criticism; the stressing an appreciation of the differences that exist even when postcolonial writers seek to achieve the same goal with their literatures.
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Woodham, Kathryn. "Translating linguistic innovation in Francophone African novels." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10465/.
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Ortega y Gasset's assertion that 'to write well is to make continual incursions into grammar, into established usage, and into accepted linguistic norms' finds resonance in the work of a number of sub-Saharan Francophone African writers, most notably in texts by Ahmadou Kourouma, Veronique Tadjo, Werewere Liking, Henri Lopes and Sony Labou Tansi. The types of incursions that are most characteristic of these authors include the incorporation of visible and quasi-invisible traces of African languages, the exploitation of stylistic features associated with orality, including sustained use of colloquialisms and vulgarisms, and experimentation with various kinds of wordplay. Taking as its corpus all of the novels by these authors that are available in English translation, the thesis seeks to set the translations in their publishing context and to analyse the ways in which the translators treat the linguistic innovation of the originals. It reveals the dominance of translation strategies that normalise the linguistically or generically innovative features of the original texts, or, where these are retained to any significant degree, that separate them from the 'standard' language through typographical variation. When the post-colonial context of the original texts is taken into account, such normalising and exoticising strategies can be seen to have significant implications, diminishing the ability of the texts to carry broader cultural and political significance. For this reason, a number of critics have argued the need for a 'decolonised translation practice'. The thesis outlines the type of translation practice that might be viewed as 'decolonised', engaging in debates over the untranslatability of layered language, and drawing comparisons with other translation theories developed at the interface with post-colonial studies such as foreignising translation, the space between, and metametonymics.
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Ferreira, Isabel Cristina Rodrigues Clark Fred M. "The dialogue about racial democracy among African-American and Afro-Brazilian literatures." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1683.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Roy, Mantra. ""Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study of African American and Dalit/Indian Literatures." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3441.
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“Speaking Subalterns” examines the literatures of two marginalized groups,African Americans in the United States and Dalits in India. The project demonstrates how two disparate societies, USA and India, are constituted by comparable hegemonic socioeconomic-cultural and political structures of oppression that define and delimit the identities of the subalterns in the respective societies. The superstructures of race in USA and caste in India inform, deform, and complicate the identities of the marginalized along lines of gender, class, and family structure. Effectively, a type of domestic colonialism, exercised by the respective national elitists, silence and exploit the subaltern women and emasculate the men. This repression from above disrupts the respective family structures in the societies, traumatizes the children, and confuses the relationships between all the members of the families. While African American women, children, and men negotiate their national identities in USA, Dalits, the former Untouchables, attempt to realize their national identities guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. While successful resistance to oppression informs the literatures written by these historically marginalized peoples, thereby giving voice to the silenced subalterns, I argue that it is equally important to be attentive to the simultaneous silencing that has not ended. Moreover, we must be skeptical about the power seemingly achieved by the subalterns in articulating their claims to legitimate rights because re-presentation of subaltern resistance by the elite intellectualsand by subalterns themselves becomes a critical inquiry.
Thus, while some subaltern women claim agency through representation, their narratives may not be exempt from hegemonic control. Others are thoroughly misrepresented by elitists. While some subaltern mothers undertake outlaw mothering by defying normative patriarchal motherhood, responsible representation can re-cover these tales which are silenced when these mothers succumb to their children and community’s disparagement. While some subaltern children may survive disastrous experiences, others may be traumatized into silence. Representation bears witness to these traumatic silences and the silencing processes. While historically emasculated subaltern men may vent and represent their rightful frustration and wrath against the oppressors, they may be simultaneously silencing their own doubly-oppressed women.
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Nintai, Moses Nunyi. "Mapping transference : problems of African literature and translation from French into English." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36074/.
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Although a number of African literary works have been translated from French into English since the middle of this century, research and debate on their translation has remained scanty, fragmentary, and scattered in diverse learned journals and other short publications. This thesis seeks to broaden the scope of research by mapping out aspects of transference in translation in terms of analysis and transfer strategies that have been, or could be, used. A selection of major translated works have been compared with their originals, to give textual examples indicative of transfer strategies. Current issues in African literature as well as typical features of the literature in French and English have been explored in order to examine differences between them and English and French literatures. The implications of these differences (at the levels of content, cultural setting, peculiar use of English and French, and the target audience) for translation are considered, and a brief historical survey of the translation of African literature provides insights into how translators have approached, and continue to approach, literary texts as well as cope with their target readership. Furthermore, dominant trends in literary translation studies (mainly in the West) are explored to determine if, and in what ways, they relate to translation studies in Africa. The analysis of transfer strategies focuses on the distinctive features of francophone African literary texts, drawing on relevant Western literary translation theories and models, on African literary theory and criticism, as well as on other disciplines likely contribute to an informed understanding of the texts. Finally, a case study applies the analysis to a text which is translated, and transfer strategies discussed.
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Daverni, Rodrigo Ferreira [UNESP]. "Um rio entre duas mundividências: leituras do espaço em Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, de Mia Couto." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94146.
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daverni_rf_me_arafcl.pdf: 580462 bytes, checksum: 7546e70f7c197a613c8d8479a6f79f8f (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>O romance Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2002), do autor moçambicano Antonio Emílio Leite Couto, comumente conhecido como Mia Couto, evidencia, por meio de uma ficção, uma proposta de revitalização, pela via do literário, da sociedade moçambicana. Nessa perspectiva, sua poética repousa em uma relação dialética que se funda, sobretudo, entre a permanência (representada ou registrada pela existência do bairro rural denominado Luar-do-Chão) e a ausência (cidade, espaço da narrativa dedicado ao desenvolvimento, progresso e conforto, mas também o da perda da memória tribal, dos sentimentos, etc.), ambas demarcadas pela espacialidade. O presente trabalho tem por finalidade demonstrar como algumas temáticas comuns às literaturas africanas aparecem representadas na espacialidade do universo diegético miacoutiano. Isso acontece sobretudo no que toca ao espaço da convivência das diferenças culturais, colaborando dessa maneira com uma melhor compreensão teórica desse importante aspecto essencial de toda narrativa ficcional. Em Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, o personagem Marianinho, protagonista e narrador da história, após anos estudando na cidade (moderna), retorna à sua ilha de origem, Luar-do-Chão (religiosa e mítica), por ocasião da morte de seu avô Dito Mariano, o patriarca da família. Ao sabor de um romance policial, muitas peripécias serão desveladas na trajetória de todos os personagens, configurando uma narrativa que prende a atenção do leitor de maneira marcante. A viagem empreendida por Mariano, quando deixa a cidade em que fora estudar as Letras para regressar à ilha de Luar-do-Chão, não diz respeito apenas a uma mudança de espaço geográfico, mas implica também numa mudança de sua condição humana e cultural e de sua visão...<br>The novel Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2002), written by the Mozambican author Antonio Emílio Leite Couto, commonly known as Mia Couto, evidences through a fiction a revitalization proposal, through literary way, of Mozambican society. In this perspective its poetic rests in a dialetic relation that founds itself specially between the permanence (represented or registered by the rural neighborhood called Luar-do-Chão existence) and the absence (city, narrative space dedicated to the development, progress and comfort, but also the space of the tribal space loss, of the feelings loss, etc.), both flagged by spatiality. This report aims to show how some themes common to African literatures appear represented in the spatiality of Mia Couto‘s diegetic universe. This happens specially with regard to the cultural differences companionship space, collaborating this way with the better theoretical comprehension of this important essential aspect of all fictional narrative. In Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, the character Marianinho, the story protagonist and narrator, after years studying at the city (modern), returns to his birthplace island, Luar-do-Chão (religious and mystic), on the occasion of his grandfather‘s death, Dito Mariano, the family‘s patriarch. Tasting like a police novel many incidents will be uncovered on the all character‘s trajectory, configuring a narrative that holds the reader‘s attention in a remarkable way. The trip endeavor by Mariano, when he lefts the city in which he went to study the Arts to regress to the island Luar-do-Chão, does not concern only to a geographic space changing, but also implicates a changing in his human and cultural condition and worldview. It is what the city (capitalist, urban and progressive) had transformed him into. To the voyager hero... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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McCoy-Wilson, Sonya Lynette. "Transgenerational Ghosting in the Psyches and Somas of African Americans and their Literatures." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/39.
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I argue that William Wells Brown’s narrative, Clotel, is informed by the white racism inherent in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and reveals evidence of the trauma it has fostered transgenerationally. By examining Toni Morrison’s Beloved, I assert that the trauma of slavery is transmitted transgenerationally in the black female body. I develop my argument using trauma theory, postulated through the work of Cathy Caruth, Dori Laub, Diana Miles, Abraham and Maria Torok, and William Cross. My purpose is to reveal the relevance and lasting significance of the legacy of slavery in contemporary American society. Thomas Jefferson’s white supremacist ideas, along with the system of slavery which nurtured them, continue to plague contemporary American thought and continue to shape African American female identity.
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Kanneh, Kadiatu Gwyneth. "African identities : race, nation and culture in ethnography, Pan-Africanism and black literatures." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260627.
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O'Dowd-Smyth, Christine. "Silence, exile and the problematic of postcolonial identity in North African Francophone literatures." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433764.
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Madubela, Ndumiso S. "Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33160.
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This study examines how Xhosa speakers incorporate verbs of English origin into their lexicons with a specific focus on the -ish- suffix. The study deals with historical treatments of this phenomenon and debates its relevance and applicability to current scholarship on lexical borrowing. To ensure a wide range of data sources I used a corpus derived from interviews with 30 Xhosa speakers in Cape Town, as well as from three media sources: the first is a 1-hour long talk radio programme transcribed from the national Xhosa broadcaster, UMhlobo weNene, the second an interview with a Xhosa-speaking patient on the television programme, Siyayinqoba Beat It. The third is from social media, (Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp). The demographics of participants in this study are predominantly urban dwellers. The youngest participant (from the surveys) was 16 years old and the oldest participant was 45 years old. I say “predominantly” as it was not possible to obtain specific background data to the two Xhosa speakers on radio and television. Very little work has been done on the way in which African languages speakers grammaticalize verbs of English origin – why, for example, do some adopted words like suffix -a (e.g. Ndiyamotivate-a – ‘I am motivating') while others suffix -ish-a (e.g. Ndiyastudy-ish-a – ‘I am studying'). The main finding of the study is that speakers incorporated verbs of English origin by suffixing -a and -ish- in their speech, they were not consciously code mixing: rather, they used these suffixes as just another resource available to them to make their communication more strategic. This could indicate that in certain urban settings the -ish- verbalizing suffix might become even more popular as people need to negotiate lifestyles that require new lexicons. It is hoped that this research will shed more light on this growing phenomenon and provide a framework for discussion of verbalizers within the greater canon of language change scholarship in South Africa as a whole. A primary function of this study was to formulate rules for the adoption of -ish- and -a and to provide statistical data as to which one is preferred by speakers.
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Masowa, Angeline. "Gender and humour; Complexities of women's image politics in Shona humourous narratives." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25340.
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Humour represents an ideal site for understanding how everyday social dynamics influence ideology and the social structure (Sue & Golash-Boza, 2013:4). This research is an examination of how gender is expressed in Shona humour. Particular emphasis is paid to how women are presented in Shona humorous narratives. Though 'what a person does in a jest is usually not accorded the same weight of responsibility as what he does seriously, humour provides a means to test the openness, accessibility, and riskiness of sensitive issues' (Lang & Lee, 2010:47). This study examines how women in particular, are reflected in Shona humour. Humour provides a 'safe' climate for expressing 'system-justifying' beliefs, (Ford et al. 2013), and this study is an exploration of the Shona beliefs about women and the reinforcement of gender norms as expressed in Shona humour. The study derives impetus from the fact that while images of women have been studied in literary and lexicographic works in Shona in particular, aspects of humour and how it presents women remain largely under-studied, as humour studies as a discipline, despite its long history the world over, is still at its infancy in Zimbabwe. From a corpus of jokes that were circulated on the social media, particularly Facebook and WhatsApp, the study examines how women are presented in Shona humour. The research made use of the Superiority Theory of humour, Incongruity and Feminism to argue that Shona humour expresses oppressive and unjust gender relations. While the humorous Shona narratives demonstrate a complex portrayal of women, generally, Shona humour expresses, ratifies and reinforces repressive norms and restrictive stereotypes about women. Women are presented as immoral, malicious and intellectually, socially and emotionally inferior to men. The study therefore argues that humour facilitates the process of promoting gender stereotypes as well as fostering gender discrimination in Shona.
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Rapeane, Maleshoane. "Language differentiation and gender in Southern Sotho." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6062.
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Macabela, Monwabisi Victor. "Country and city: a study of autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's novel Litshona limpume." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11945.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The title of this thesis, Country and City - Autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's Litshona Liphume arises out of a complex understanding of the author's narrative and literary intentions. Country refers to the fact that the story is set in a specifically named rural area in the Eastern Cape in the late 1960s and early 1970s. City on the other hand does not refer to any particular city, but is rather a symbol of changed and challenge, of opportunity and wealth but also of a world view deficient in tradition and spiritual connection with the land and the ancestors.
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Gambahaya, Zifikile. "An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9678.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link between creative writing and nationalism, which is the context in which creativity takes place, an attempt is made to outline major trends in nationalist history vis-a-vis colonialism. Having set the background for analysis, the research focuses on texts that are published in the context of the apparent cultural renaissance that is ushered by the apparent victory of African nationalism over colonialism. The texts are analysed in the context of the dialectic of nationalism and colonialism.
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Nyamende, Abner. "The life and works of Isaac William(s) Wauchope." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3658.
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Fihla, Goodwell Lungile. "The life history of Z.S. Zotwana." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3660.
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Dikeni, Clifford. "An examination of the socio-political undercurrents in Mqhayi's novel Ityala lamawele." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18252.
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Mqhayi, a Xhosa writer of the early 1900's is able to deconstruct the black and white dichotomy by using the twins as depicting some characteristics of black and white culture. The dissertation thus examines the way in which Mqhayi presents this dichotomy. He manipulates literary forms in order to articulate specific cultural attitudes which were dominant then. Xhosa writers at this time, being entirely dependent on the technologies provided by the missionaries, were forced to use metaphorical devices in order to avoid heavy censorship from the missionaries who were prescriptive and would not accept any book which they considered to be political, their main interest being in books which had a religious theme. The novel, Ityala Lamawele, coincides with some of the major political moods of its time. It is fully socialized and is absorbed directly into the dominant patterns of thought, mood and outlook of the moment from which it emerges. It addresses in a very subtle manner the socio-political conditions in which the Black people found themselves.
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Ndlela, Lulama Judith. "Ungcwelekazi Thembakazi Gwegwe nemisebenzi yakhe." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3656.
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Poni, Zukiswa. "The alignment between curriculum objectives and assessment of IsiXhosa at Grade 12 level." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13775.
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In the new South Africa (after 1994), the education system required an extensive overhaul to ensure that the inequalities of the past do not continue to dominate the education system. As a result, a number of debates took place and in 1998 a new educational model that is competency based was introduced (Taylor & Vinjevold, 1999). The main aim of this change was to ensure that the curriculum would integrate academic and vocational skills. The other aims was to ensure that the new education system represent a complete opposite of the apartheid education system. Language, being central to education, is one of the areas that were totally overhauled. It is therefore the aim of this study, to investigate whether the expectations of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS), articulated through curriculum objectives and expected outcomes, are fulfilled at grade 12 level, with a particular focus on isiXhosa language as a Home language. This study aims to investigate the alignment between curriculum objectives and assessment through an interrogation of the curriculum aims and assessment tools.
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Gobodwana, Anele. "An analysis of the lyrics of the top 10 African language pop songs on Umhlobo Wenene in 2016." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30525.
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In this dissertation I critically analyse the lyrics of the top 10 songs (sung in an indigenous African language) aired on uMhlobo weNene (the national broadcast station for the Xhosa language) during 2016. Before the analysis of the songs I discuss various academic works on pop lyrics generally – ranging from a discussion of the production of aesthetic difference, lyrics in global and local settings, the changing lexicon of pop lyrics over the years, the purpose of lyrics to teenagers and the issue of translation and code switching in the lyrics of bilingual popular songs. In the main body of the thesis I apply a thematic and detailed linguistic analysis of the top 10 songs after which I provide an analysis of interviews conducted with Xhosa-speaking teenagers
with regard to their linguistic preferences as applicable to contemporary lyrics. The conclusion includes a summary of the dominant themes of the lyrics studied and a focus on what the grammar of the songs (e.g. the predominance of the first person pronoun in all of the lyrics) can tell us about the increasingly individualistic nature of contemporary lyrics sung in African languages.
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Ngwendu, Amandla. "The use of translation as a teaching method in second language teaching: a case study with second language learners of isiXhosa at the University of Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22878.
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This research topic came about during my honours research project. The honours project studied strategies that are used by second language learners in acquiring vocabulary. One of the strategies that were used was direct translation. Upon further research into the subject, it was we discovered that no work has been done on the use of translation as a teaching method in isiXhosa. This study attempts to bridge the information gap in the area of second language learning and teaching in African languages. The current study followed two classes at University of Cape Town where isiXhosa literature is taught as a second language. Given that the students do not speak any isiXhosa at entry level, they rely heavily on their first language for making sense of the second language. In the case of literature, where terminology is not carefully selected to accommodate second language learners, students rely heavily on translation. This study therefore investigates the role and process of translation as a teaching method. The lack of research in this area made it very difficult to follow a particular theoretical framework, therefore the study followed a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Students were given activities that would require translation in order for the task to be completed. This forms part of their normal learning process. These activities were analysed. The second part consisted of a questionnaire that surveyed the student's views regarding the use of translation. Findings based on the qualitative data analysis revealed heavy relianace on translation as a learning strategy. Students also indicated that prior knowledge of vocabulary as well as an understanding of morphology were both very beneficial.
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Ngqayiyana, Nokubonga Cynthia. "USiphatheleni Kula neencwadi zakhe." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3657.
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Nyamende, Abner. "A comparative study of the portrayal of characters in A.C. Jordan's The wrath of the ancestors, Modikwe Dikobe's The marabi dance and G.B. Sinxo's Unojayiti wam." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19454.
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The characters encountered in The wrath of the ancestors, The Marabi dance and Unojayiti wam bear on an African identity, and they reflect a purely African conception of life. The "Africanness" of their outlook can only be determined when measured against the real life African socio-cultural background. Therefore, as a starting point in this study, I has been essential to explore the various debates about African literature, in an attempt to reveal any common factors that can be used as the basis for a study of the portrayal of characters in this field.
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Hlongwani, Given Jacqe. "An analysis of the challenges with respect to attaining equivalence in translation of literature pertaining to Sexually Transmitted Diseases from English into Xitsonga." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11532.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Translation has been a practice that has assisted many languages the world over to develop to become languages of power. The purpose of this project was to elicit some translation challenges that translators face when translating from English into Xitsonga. It is not easy to translate a document in which the domain has not been explored because the translator has to juggle with terminology which does not exist in the indigenous language. In this project, I have made an attempt to use different theories that can guide us when we encounter a lemma which does not exist in the target language. The challenges that are faced by one indigenous language in South Africa in language development through translation are the same as for most other indigenous languages.
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Ntshabele, Carol Mmamonyana. "Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16837.
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Bibliography: pages 133-141.<br>This study seeks to investigate Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education. The study is premised on the assumption that the learner's non-standard language from the home environment is not accommodated in the learning environment. The language used in the classroom is the standard language. This study deals with aspects such as language change, language contact, language interference as well as standardisation and the differences that exist in the spoken and written Setswana. Sociolinguistic factors such as language use are also dealt with. The problem of the use of non-standard varieties, as compared to the use of standard forms in the broad educational field is investigated.
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Futuse, Liziwe. "An examination of how loanwords in a corpus of spoken and written contemporary isiXhosa are incorporated into the noun class system of isiXhosa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30509.
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Lexical change is a natural phenomenon for all of the world’s languages. This change can be viewed in terms of language contact, technological innovation and the adoption of new lifestyles. Whereas in the past isiXhosa, a Nguni language spoken in South Africa, borrowed words from both English and Afrikaans, contemporary speakers rely more on the English lexicon, with some previous adoptions from Afrikaans being replaced by those from English. This study focusses specifically on contemporary borrowed, or loanword nouns in isiXhosa which are brought into the noun class system of the language via a number of different noun class prefixes. The focus of this study is to understand whether there are any features or properties, whether morphological or semantic, that predispose loanword nouns to fall into a particular noun class. In this thesis I therefore analyse a corpus
of new data from conversations and interviews I conducted with contemporary isiXhosa-speakers, as well as from written translation activities. After providing a general background to the semantic content of isiXhosa noun classes, I analyse the
new data and try to make some conclusions as to which noun class prefix is the most productive for loanwords, as well as to argue the existence of a significant amount of variation in terms of prefixes used. The study concludes that most loanword nouns are assigned to Noun Class 9, but some speakers also use Noun Classes 1a, 5 and 7 as alternatives for Class 9 under certain morphological and semantic conditions. Even Noun Class 3 was found to contain a number of loanword nouns, suggesting that speakers are able to manipulate the grammar of isiXhosa, and particularly its noun class system, to accommodate words from other languages.
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Jacobs, Princess Thuleleni. "Uncedile saule nemisebenzi yakhe." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3661.
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Masondo, Meshack M. "The detective novel in Zulu : form and theme in C.T. Msimang's Walivuma Icala." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3659.
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Nakani, Thumeka Veronica. "Ubomi bukaGuybon Budlwana Sinxo nemisebenzi yakhe." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11533.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 151-156).<br>Injongo yokubhalwa kwalo mqulu kukuphakamisa ulwimi lwesiXhosa kunye nababhali bolu lwimi abaphilayo nabangasekhoyo. Iilwimi zesiNtu zijongelwe phantsi kakhulu azijongelwanga kumgangatho omnye neelwimi zaseNtshona. Kuluxanduva lwethu thina bayibonayo le meko ke ngoko ukuba sizithande, sizixabise kwaye siziphakamise iilwimi zethu ngokuthi sibonise ukuba nazo ziyalingana nezinye iilwimi.
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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 texts, despite their differences, which suggest that, collectively, these novels support the notion that gender violence affects the lives of a majority of African women (from all backgrounds) to a greater or lesser extent. This is because it is supported by the social structures developed and sustained in cultures underpinned by patriarchal ideologies. A range of strategies for managing violence arise from a cross-textual reading of the novels. These will be analysed in terms of their efficacy and rootedness in African feminisms’ principles. The more effective strategies being adopted are found in works by Ama Ata Aidoo and Lindsey Collen and these focus particularly on changing the meanings of motherhood and marriage.
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Cumpsty, Rebekah Lindiwe Levitt. "'Lean[ing] into transcendence' : transformations of the sacred in South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian literatures." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13953/.
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Enchantment is a defining feature our postcolonial, globalised world and the literary is where much of this wonder is registered and celebrated. Thus this thesis attends to the postcolonial dynamic of sacred and secular experience as it is represented in contemporary African literatures. Debates around the secular and postsecular are long standing in the fields of religious studies, anthropology and philosophy, but as yet underappreciated in literary studies. I develop a hermeneutic of the imminent sacred as a way to read the constitutive and recuperative gestures subjects make as they assert a sense of belonging in spaces of globalised modernity. The texts are grouped thematically. In response to Chris Abani and Yvonne Vera’s work I articulate how the ritual dimensions of lyrical prose and ritual attention to the corporeal form sacralises the body. Phaswane Mpe and Teju Cole incorporate African epistemologies into the resignification of their cities and with Ivan Vladislavić, the streets are sacralised. Marlene van Niekerk and J. M. Coetzee convey the anxieties of settler colonialism and a love of land reinscribed as sublime. Collectively, the novels I discuss reflect patterns of existential anxiety that emerge from difficulties of belonging, and I trace the ritualised and sacralising strategies of incorporation that seek to locate the subject. These novels radically disrupt the epistemological and ontological modalities of globalised ‘secular’ literary production and intervene in the recuperation of the sacred as a mode of incorporation and resistance. Recent scholarship in African literatures has overlooked these distinctly postsecular negotiations and the ways in which the sacred is reinvested in contemporary African fiction in order to instantiate intimate, local alternatives to the teleology of secular modernity. Thus I use the imminent sacred as a reading strategy that foregrounds these postsecular negotiations and the interrelations of care and vulnerability that motivate sacralisation.
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Everson, Vanessa Marguerite. "And ever shall be? A model for teaching French as a foreign language in South African tertiary institutions." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8227.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p 335-371).<br>The assumption underpinning the thesis is that the current teaching of French at South African universities caters imperfectly for learner needs and fails to reflect pedagogical practice and learning theories appropriate to the twenty-first century. Firstly, so as to contextualise that teaching, the Western European legacy of secondand foreign-language teaching is examined briefly from earliest times to the latter part of the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to changes in practice and learning theories over time with the aim of understanding the roots of the teaching of French while detecting possible lasting influences on that teaching. Secondly, current practice (curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment) at fourteen South African universities offering undergraduate courses in French is analysed critically against the backdrop of more recent learning theories; these are found to have little resonance in current practice. The analysis informs the model which is then proposed for the teaching of tertiary-level French at South African institutions. The starting point for the model is the acknowledgement that in South Africa French is a foreign language and must be taught as such. Consideration is given to the learning environment, as well as to ideology and constraints which exert influence on the teaching of French. With the proposed model a certain concept of language, society and learning/teaching strategies is advocated, while the roles of the learner, teacher, didactic material, and the mother tongue are clearly positioned within that concept. The model proposes a pedagogy and curriculum, which are learner-centred, taskarticulated and outcomes-based and which are anchored in constructivism and democratising ideology. Finally, reasons are given as to why the adoption of such a model would add value to the teaching of French at South African universities.
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Dowling, Tessa. "The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17456.
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Bibliography: pages 259-274.<br>In this thesis I examine the way in which Xhosa speakers create humour, what forms (e.g. satire, irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The functions of Xhosa humour, both during and after apartheid, are examined, as is its role in challenging, contesting and reaffirming traditional notions of society and culture. The particular techniques Xhosa comedians and comic writers use in order to elicit humour are explored with specific reference to the way in which the phonological complexity of this language is exploited for humorous effect. Oral literature sources include collections of praise poems, folktales and proverbs, while anecdotal humour is drawn from recent interviews conducted with domestic workers. My analysis of humour in literary texts initially focuses on the classic works of G.B. Sinxo and S.M. Burns-Ncamashe, and then goes on to refer to contemporary works such as those of P.T. Mtuze. The study on the techniques of Xhosa humour uses as its theoretical base Walter Nash's The language of humour (1985), while that on the functions of Xhosa humour owes much to the work of sociologists such as Michael Mulkay and Chris Powell and George E.C. Paton. The study reveals the fact that Xhosa oral humour is personal and playful - at times obscene - but can also be critical. In texts it explores the comedy of characters as well as the irony of socio-political realities. In both oral and textual discourses the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Xhosa are exploited to create a humour which is richly patterned and finely crafted. In South Africa humour often served to liberate people from the oppressive atmosphere of apartheid. At the same time humour has always had a stabilizing role in Xhosa cultural life, providing a means of controlling deviants and misfits.
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Adenekan, Olorunshola. "African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3895/.
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Using wide-ranging literature and theoretical concepts published digitally and in print, this thesis will build the emerging picture of African literature in English that is being published in the digital space. The study will analyse the technological production of classed and sexualised bodies in new African writing in cyberspace by some of the young writers from Nigeria and Kenya, as well as writing from a few of their contemporaries from other African countries. This thesis will also analyse the differences between the agenda of the previous generation – including representation and perspectives - and that of a new generation in cyberspace. In the process, I hope to show how literature in cyberspace is asking questions as much of psychic landscapes as of the material world. To my knowledge, there is no substantive literary study done so far that contextualizes this digital experience.
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Camargos, Léia Patrícia [UNESP]. "A presença das literaturas portuguesa e africana de língua portuguesa no Suplemento Literário Minas Gerais (1966/1988): indexação, coletânea de textos e banco de dados." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94147.
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camargos_lp_me_assis.pdf: 4673468 bytes, checksum: a2488349043bee5773a7ec0e4a866ad0 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Indexação de textos de crítica e de criação literária das literaturas portuguesa e africanas de língua portuguesa publicadas no Suplemento Literário Minas Gerais (1966-1988), com o objetivo de: a) resgatar a memória das referidas literaturas; b) traçar o percurso do periódico Suplemento Literário Minas Gerais; c) indexar os textos das literaturas mencionadas; d) elaborar uma coletânea de textos integrais (impressa) de crítica e de criação literária com os textos referentes ao item c; e) criar um Banco de Dados informatizado (coletânea de textos integrais digitalizados, em formato PDF, com possibilidade de acesso por meio de fichas catalográficas) com os textos do item d. Por meio do contato com as fontes primárias, procedeu-se à indexação dos textos referentes às literaturas acima, tendo sido estes organizados em fichas catalográficas e em índices remissivos, em formato de quadros,observando-se os itens: cronologia de publicação, colaboradores, escritores e frequência. O produto da pesquisa democratizará e disponibilizará o acesso a periódicos brasileiros e a um número considerável de textos integrais digitalizados das literaturas portuguesa e africanas de língua portuguesa.<br>This is indexation of critical and literary texts of Portuguese literature and African literatures in Portuguese language published in Literary Supplement Minas Gerais (newspaper) (1966/1988) with the purpose of: a) keeping the memory of the mentioned literatures; b) reviewing the course of the Brazilian periodical Literary Supplement Minas Gerais; c) indexing the texts from those literatures mentioned above; d) making up a collecting the critical and literary texts mentioned in item c in an unabridged printed version; e) making up a Data Base (collected texts digitalized in full, in PDF format, with search access through a cataloguing cards. After contacting the primary sources, the indexation of Portuguese literature and African literatures in Portuguese language were done, as these texts were organized in cataloguing cards and reviewing indexes, in table format, watching the following items: publishing chronology, collaborators, critical articles, literary articles, writers and literary texts. The final product of the research - Data Base and collected texts - will democratize and enable the reading of a Brazilian periodical, the Literary Supplement Minas Gerais and a large number of digitalized unabridged texts in full from Portuguese literature and African literatures in Portuguese language.
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Zotwana, Sydney Zanemvula. "Literature between two worlds : the first fifty years of the Xhosa novel and poetry." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18253.
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The main preoccupation in this thesis is to illustrate that, although there is no doubt that the missionaries deserve all the praise that they have been showered with, for their role in the development of Xhosa literature, there is a sense in which they can be said to have contributed as much also to its underdevelopment. It is my view that Xhosa literature has had a very unfortunate history, because of having an origin that is located in the history of Christianization. This history has haunted Xhosa literary creativity from its early beginnings to the present. The success of the mission to convert them to Christianity was anchored on the principle of total alienation of the Xhosa from their world-view: from their culture, from their religion, from their chiefs, from their literary art, and even from their homes. The intention was to turn them into new beings - Christian and loyal subjects of the British Crown - and to make them not only reject, but also despise their past. Therefore Western-style education for the Blacks in South Africa did not come out of any sense of altruism on the part of those by whom it was introduced. It was the interests of its initiators and their country that had to be served by the education of the Blacks. It was in this context that Xhosa literature was born. It was produced to promote the interests of the Christian church and therefore those of the British Crown. Its production was controlled by the missionaries, the owners of the publishing houses, but it was produced by the Christian and literate Xhosa most of whom had studied in mission schools. It was produced to crush the past and any aspirations that were in conflict with those of the Christian church and the British imperial designs. In short, it was a literature against its people. However, the Christian and literate Xhosa was never accepted as the equal of the other British subjects who were White. He was excluded from all law-making mechanisms and was affected by the many Native Laws that were passed, as badly as his non-Christian brothers and sisters. He witnessed land dispossession and all the other atrocities perpetrated by White rulers. His literary art had been harnessed to legitimize and perpetrate this situation and he dared not use his art to change it. It is in the light of this context that this thesis contends that Xhosa literature is between two worlds. It is argued that Xhosa literature, because of the writers' dilemma created by their position between these two conflicting universes, has been forced to be mute in the face of the Black people's experiences of oppression, and therefore to be indifferent to the Black people's struggles to resist colonization and to liberate themselves from this oppression. It is however, pointed out that some works are characterised by the writers' attempts to grapple with this dilemma. Finally this thesis advocates complete liberation of literary artists from state control, indirect though it may be, and also a change in the teaching and analysis of Xhosa literature.
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Stratford, Candice Taylor. "“Healing a Hurting Heart”: FEMRITE's Use of Narrative and Community as Catalysts for Traumatic Healing." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4436.
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FEMRITE, the Ugandan Women Writers Association, was created in 1996, and over the last twenty years, it has become the largest and most successful women's writing group in East Africa and one of the most influential literary communities on the African continent. It has become an essential element of Ugandan literary society, and a large proportion of its writings reflect various forms of trauma, begging an engagement with trauma theories. I will argue that through strategies of narrative recuperation and the establishment of communities, FEMRITE has created avenues for women writers, their subjects, and their readers to engender healing from trauma. After discussing FEMRITE's social programs, such as interviewing war refugees or AIDS victims, I will analyze two texts by FEMRITE author Beatrice Lamwaka to demonstrate the manifestations of trauma and the ways it is narrated, as well as the way Lamwaka uses narrative and community in working through her own trauma. Through an analysis of its organizations and publications, I hope to show that FEMRITE represents a uniquely optimistic and socially persuasive approach to trauma and healing.