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Carvalho, Alyssa May. "The novel as cultural and historical archive: an examination of Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2006)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1224.

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This research engages with a contemporary theoretical debate in the literary field, namely the ability of fictional texts to contribute to archival records. Contemporary research in archival discourse suggests that there are many intersections between fiction and the archive. Using Hamilton and others’ seminal text Refiguring the Archive (2002) and Pasco’s “Literature as Historical Archive” (2004) as point of departure, this dissertation offers an analysis of the South African English translation of Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat (2004, translated 2006). In both form and function, the novel is vi

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Murray, Paul Leonard. "The historiographic metafiction of Etienne van Heerden." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53120.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the possibility that there are other ways in which to represent the past, not just the traditional way as practised by historians. For instance, other forms such as historical fiction in the historical novel, and therefore, narrative, can act as an important conduit for conveying historical meaning. Through the examination of the historiographic metafiction of the South African writer, Etienne Van Heerden, this study has concluded that through a reading of both the author's belletristic and theoretical te

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Wyrill, Beth Alexandra. "The interface of history and fiction in Russel Brownlee’s Garden of the plagues, Ingrid Winterbach’s To hell With Cronjé, and Etienne van Heerden’s The long silence of Mario Salviati." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015517.

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Both historiographical and literary practices have undergone revision in recent years in attempting to address the inheritance of nineteenth-century realism. Since the object of realist stylistics, employed in both the writing of fiction and history, is to render authorship authoritative or even invisible, the ideological import of these narratives is often such that the constructedness of the historical record and its absences are veiled. In developments beginning in the 1980s with the advent of ‘New Historicism’ and with the emergence of postmodern literary techniques, the interface of liter

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Hale, Frederick. "Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52325.

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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of various historical novels which dealt to a greater or lesser degree with the Great Trek and were written between the 1840s and the 1930s in Dutch, Afrikaans and English but with particular emphasis on H.P. Lamont's War, Wine and Women and Stuart Cloete's Turning Wheels (1937). The analysis of all these fictional reconstructions focuses on the portrayal of the Voortrekkers found in them. Much attention is also paid to the historical contexts in which the two principal wo

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Naidu, Sam. "South African crime fiction: sleuthing the State post-1994, African Identities." African Identities, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53912.

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In this essay we demonstrate how the burgeoning field of South African crime fiction has responded to the birth and development of a democratic, post-apartheid South African state. First, an overview of South African crime fiction in the last 20 years is presented. Then the essay presents an argument for South African crime fiction to be regarded as the ‘new political novel’, based on its capacity for socio-political analysis. We use Deon Meyer, arguably South Africa’s most popular and successful crime fiction author, as an exemplar for our argument. In the following section, the genresnob deb

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Naidu, Sam. "Fears and desires in South African crime fiction." Routledge, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53765.

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This article is a review of a burgeoning literary genre, South African crime fiction, as much as it is a review of specific texts. First, for the purposes of contextualisation and historicisation, an overview of the primary literature is provided. Then criticism and theories of extant crime fiction in mainly the UK and USA, of which South African crime fiction is a descendent, are outlined. This outline is followed by descriptions of two sub-genres (the crime thriller novel and the literary detective novel). Two exemplar texts, Devil’s Peak (2007) and Lost Ground (2011) are then reviewed. The

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Green, Michael. "Fiction as a historicizing form : uses of history in modern South African fiction." Thesis, University of York, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316162.

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Roux, Rowan. "Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33005.

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This thesis examines the role that speculative fiction plays in imagining the city spaces of the future. Considering the rapid pace of change that has marked post-apartheid South Africa as an impetus for emerging literary traditions within contemporary South African speculative fiction, the argument begins by sketching the connections between South Africa's transition to democracy and the emerging speculative texts which mark this period. Positioning speculative fiction as an umbrella term that incorporates a wide selection of generic traditions, the thesis engages with dystopian impulses, sci

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Walton, Sarah-Jane. "Remembering and Recollecting World War Two: South African Perspectives." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13025.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis explores some of the memories and recollections of World War Two in South Africa today. It aims to address an absence of work done on South Africa in relation to World War Two, memory and commemoration. This thesis is as much about the diverse processes of remembrance and recollection as it is about the war itself and assumes that memories of the war can be located in different media. Accordingly the chapters herein are each delegated a media form, from newspapers, literature, memorials, film and photography to oral interviews, in which ‘memo

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Steenkamp, Elzette Lorna. "Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002262.

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This study examines a range of South African speculative novels which situate their narratives in futuristic or ‘alternative’ milieus, exploring how these narratives not only address identity formation in a deeply divided and rapidly changing society, but also the ways in which human beings place themselves in relation to Nature and form notions of ‘ecological’ belonging. It offers close readings of these speculative narratives in order to investigate the ways in which they evince concerns which are rooted in the natural, social and political landscapes which inform them. Specific attention is

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Trump, Martin. "South African short fiction in English and Afrikaans since 1948." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28643/.

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Prevailing critical practice tends to view South African literature as comprising a number of writing communities in the country whose works and concerns have little to do with each other. Hence literary works in English and in Afrikaans, by black and by white South African writers are rarely considered in relation to one another. Literary criticism in South Africa has, in other words, proceeded along much the same lines as the political determinations of the country, dividing the literature into distinct racial and linguistic camps. While I have chosen to consider South African short fiction

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Naidu, Sam. "Crimes against nature : ecocritical discourse in South African crime fiction." UNISA Press Journals - NISC, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53754.

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Heeding Patrick Murphy's call to critics, in his book, Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies: fences, boundaries and field, to study “nature-oriented mystery novels … in order to understand the degree to which environmental consciousness and nature awareness has permeated popular and commercial fiction” (2009: 143), this article examines how highly successful author, Deon Meyer, has employed crime fiction to popularize ecological issues and debates in South Africa. In this article, Meyer's first “nature-oriented” novel, the crime thriller, Blood safari (2009), is analysed.

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Geschier, Sofie M. M. A. "The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8175.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240).<br>National and international literature on intergenerational dialogue presents the sharing of primary narratives as necessary to prevent an atrocity from happening again. International literature on history education and memory studies questions this â€˜never againâ€™ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox within South African history education. On the one hand, public spaces such as

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Newham, Priska. "South African landscape painting, 1848-2008 : a handbook for teachers." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11018.

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My dissertation looks at South African landscape painting with the requirements of high school art teachers in mind. It has been written in consultation with Professor Michael Godby, at the University of Cape Town, the curator of the landscape exhibition, to be held at the Old Town House in Cape Town from 9 June to 11 September 2010. The handbook is designed to be distributed to educators at the Ibhabhathane Project Workshop organised to coincide with the exhibition. This is a teaching resource for Visual Culture Studies for Grades 10 to 12. It focuses on an analysis of artists in the school c

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Pretorius, Sian Eve. "Non-fiction in fiction : poor whites in selected South African literary texts from 1900-1950." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53455.

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The term poor white is not uncommon and neither is the whole phenomenon. The topic dominated much of the academic, media and entertainment spheres for the better part of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines poor whites in fiction and non-fiction and attempts to demonstrate that there is a certain overlap. Thus by combining the two types of literature it shows that the selected novels, written during the first half of the twentieth century by authors from the Realist genre, may be considered cultural historical sources in their own right in terms of portraying the daily lives a

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Kessler, Stowell van Courtland. "The black concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6039.

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Simpson, James G. R. "Boipatong : the politics of a massacre and the South African transition." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12144.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-97).<br>The Boipatong massacre has been widely recognised as a key moment in the South African transition, yet limited scholarly attention has been given to the details of this event. The massacre is frequently cited as an example of state complicity in the political violence that shook the country during a period of negotiation and reform. This thesis considers the underlying forensic truths of the Boipatong massacre, but more importantly it examines the ways in which the meanings of the massacre were contested by different

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Fletcher, Elizabeth. "South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4287.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>In this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific geographical, social, political and historical settings of South Africa. A key aspect of this research is the work’s temporal setting. I will focus on local crime fiction which is set in contemporary South Africa as this enables me to engage with current perceptions of South Africa, depicted by contemporary local writers. My concern is to explore how contem

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Da, Canha Taryn. "Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956.

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Includes bibliography and filmography.<br>The South African film industry, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult and trying time over the last century and has been faced with enormous challenges since 1994. South Africa is still in a process of transition and the turbulent era of Apartheid is still vivid in our memories and our collective national identity. What is especially exciting about studying the history of the South African film industry, is that it was through film, television and the media at large, that we witnessed the evolution of this history. On a micro

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Pretorius, Michelle Louisa. "WHERE THE DEVIL TURNS." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1540315346461346.

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Easton, Kai. "Textuality & the land : reading 'White Writing' and the fiction of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342209.

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This thesis examines the formative fiction of J. M. Coetzee and his first book of essays, White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988). His latest novel Disgrace (1999), has already made literary history, winning Coetzee his second Booker Prize. It certainly invites new readings and links with his earlier work, which I discuss in my Introduction. I have tried to range across Coetzee’s work while heeding the structure that has emerged out of my research: long (sequential) chapters, divided into three or more sections, which discuss issues around the writing and reading of fou

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Collins, Brian F. "A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779.

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Bibliography: pages 215-230.<br>COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Its goals were to advance war resistance both within South Africa and overseas, research the militarisation of Southern Africa, influence the ANC's opinion on war resistance, bring Western European peace groups and soldiers' unions into the fold of the an

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John, Nerys. "South African intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975-1976 : motivations and implications." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7928.

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Bibliography: leaves 137-146.<br>Between 1975-1976 South Africa intervened in the Angolan civil war. The invasion of a black African country was then an unprecedented event in South Africa's history. This dissertation explores the motivations behind, and implications of, South Africa's involvement in Angola. It firstly scrutinises the rationalisations given by the government of the day, specifically the four key objectives that the Defence Force claimed it had been pursuing. These were: the protection of South Africa's investment in the Cunene hydroelectric scheme; the 'hot pursuit' of Namibia

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Mendelsohn, Adam D. "Two far south : the responses of South African and Southern Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11379.

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Bibliography: leaves 186-204.<br>This dissertation uses the comparative historical method to compare and contrast the responses of Southern and South African Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on the interrelationship of the two communities with reform rabbis and international Jewish organizations. The dissertation argues that the nature of individual and institutional responses was significantly shaped by exposure to a set of factors common to the South and South Africa. The dissertation is thematic, employing a variety of case studies. The dissertation begin

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Geertsema, Johan Hendrik. "Irony and otherness : a study of some recent South African narrative fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17592.

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Bibliography: pages 277-290.<br>This study considers the relation between irony and otherness. Chapter 2 shows that there is little agreement on the politics of irony in critical discussions. Nevertheless, irony and otherness do appear to be linked in many of these discussions. Chapter 3 offers a consideration of Emmanuel Levinas's conception of ethics in terms of his understanding of the other as face and trace. The tendency of language to foreclose on otherness by reducing it must be interrupted, while otherness must, nonetheless, be Said. The chapter concludes with an attempt to relate Levi

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Naidu, Sam. "A survey of South African crime fiction : critical analysis and publishing history." University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53878.

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Is crime fiction the new 'political novel' in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction more than any other genre? Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa, with more new authors, titles and themes emerging every year. This book is the first comprehensive survey of South African crime fiction. It provides an overview of this phenomenally successful literary category, and places it within its wider social and historical context. The authors specialise in both literary studies and print culture, and this combination

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Belling, Veronica. "Recovering the lives of South African Jewish women during the migration years c1880-1939." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10013.

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Includes abstract.<br>This dissertation sets out to demonstrate how a group doubly situated on the margins, as Jewish and female, helped to build the larger community of South African Jewry and contributed to the wider South African society. The investigation is rooted in the transformation wrought in Jewish communities worldwide in the nineteenth and twentieth century through emancipation, assimilation, immigration, acculturation, and Zionism. The discussion is divided into three sections, of which the first two constitute a description of the normative experience of Jewish women, the majorit

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Larkin, Clare. "Becoming liberal : a history of the National Union of South African students : 1945-1955." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7892.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was established in 1924 as a forum for white South African students. The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and the establishment of the ultra-nationalist Afrikaanse Studentebond (ANS) led to the disaffiliation from NUSAS of the student bodies of the Afrikaans-medium universities. Until the end of the Second World War, two groups of students jostled for control of NUSAS. The first championed the ideal of a broad white South African national feeling and worked for the return of the Afikaans-spea

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Selesho, Jacob M. "The historical perspectives of Quality Assurance in South African Higher Education Institution." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 5, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/417.

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Published Article<br>Quality Assurance has changed drastically in the last five years and these changes have impacted heavily on the operation of Higher Education Institutions in South Africa. The paper will review the process of quality assurance from as early as Certification of Council of Technikons Education (SERTEC) and Quality Promotion Unit (QPU) days. SERTEC and QPU did, pave the way for the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) to perform its roles as assigned by the Council of Higher Education (CHE).

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Swartz, Rebecca. ""Good citizens and gentlemen" : public and private space at the South African College, 1880-1918." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11019.

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This thesis examines the nature of the distinction between public and private space at the South African College (SAC) between 1880 and 1918. By viewing the College within increasingly wide lenses of analysis, examining the micro-level of student experience, to situating the College within its immediate, national and imperial location, the thesis indicates the ways in which institutions should be seen as products of, and permeable to, their historical contexts. Chapter one begins by examining the gendered identity formation of the College students. This is followed by an in-depth examination o

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Burpeau, Kemp Pendleton. "A historical study of John Graham Lake and South African/United States pentecostalism." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006484.

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American minister John Graham Lake (1870-1935) was a pivotal participant in an era of profound religious and political transition. Surprisingly, Lake's often provocative life had previously been largely neglected as a field of academic inquiry. In the U.S. Lake associated with key Holiness, Wesleyan and Apostolic Faith charismatics like John Alexander Dowie of the Zion City, Illinois Utopia, Charles Parham of the Topeka Revival and William Seymour of the Azusa Street Revival. Lake served as an important intermediary between Parham's often reactionary, white orientation that was unreceptive to

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Karadağ, Esma. "Late Ottoman Perspectives on the South African War (1899-1902): the Work of Ismail Kemal Vlora." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31611.

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The South African War of 1899−1902 or Anglo-Boer War was one of the modern examples of propaganda in history. It revealed an enormous agitprop conducted by British and Boer forces. The European and American public closely followed the struggle between the mighty British Empire and the “little white Christians”. This thesis examines the pro-British propaganda of the Ottoman intellectuals and policy-makers by focusing on the work of Ismail Kemal Vlora, Transval Meselesi. Ismail Kemal Bey’s pamphlet on the war is a crucial propagandist instrument and legitimiser of British imperialism in South Af

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Pinnock, William. ""To learn how to speak": a study of Jeremy Cronin's poetry." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021038.

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In the chapters that follow, the porous boundary between the public and the private in Jeremy Cronin’s poetry is investigated in his three collections, Inside (1983), Even the Dead: Poems, Parables and a Jeremiad (1996) and More Than a Casual Contact (2006). I argue two particular Marxist theorists are central to reading Cronin’s poetry: Bertolt Brecht, and his notion of the Verfremdungseffekt, and Walter Benjamin and his work on historical materialism, primarily the essay On the Concept of History / Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940). Both theorists focus on the work of art in a histo

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Mnyaka, Phindezwa Elizabeth. "Re-tracing representations and identities in twentieth century South African and African photography: Joseph Denfield, regimes of seeing and alternative visual histories." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/540.

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The thesis examines the photographic collection of Joseph Denfield, an archivist and historian who experimented with photography over a twenty-year period. The study is located within the field of critical visual studies that focuses on historical photography in its depiction of identities and groups in the context of social change. The thesis pays attention to the manner and extent to which Denfield participated in regional visual economies at various moments during his photographic career in order to establish his contribution towards a visual history in Africa and more broadly Southern Afri

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Mahlangu, Songeziwe. "Penumbra." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015207.

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After failing his Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting Mangaliso Zolo takes an office job at a large insurance company in Cape Town. Anonymous and overlooked in a vast bureaucracy but with a pay check promising happiness and security, he slides into a series of personal crises that test his grip on what he believes in. When at his lowest ebb he leaves his job, grabs his bible and hits the streets his world closes in on him and he is eventually confined to a psychiatric hospital. Penumbra is a novel that explores the liminal area between faith and avarice, sanity and madness, modernity and tradi

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Paleker, Gairoonisa. "Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8259.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-239).<br>This thesis examines one aspect of cinema in South Africa, namely, the historical construction of a 'black film industry' and the development of a 'black' cinema viewing audience. It does so by focusing on films produced specifically for an African audience using a state subsidy. This subsidy was introduced in 1972 and was separate from the general or A-Scheme subsidy that was introduced in 1956 for the production of English- and Afrikaans-language or 'white' films. This thesis is a critical assessment of the actual

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Marais, Marcia Helena. ""Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3696.

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A key aim of this study is to shed light on the representation of coloured women with reference to racial passing, using fictive characters depicted in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s (1924) God’s Stepchildren,Zoë Wicomb’s (2006) Playing in the Light, and Pat Stamatélos’s (2005) Kroes, as presented by these three racially distinct female South African authors.Since I propose that literature provides a link between a subjective history and the under-represented narratives from the margins, I use literature to reimagine these. I analyse the ways in which the authors present ‘hybrid’ identities within th

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Naidu, Sam. "Crime travel: a survey of representations of transnational crime in South African crime fiction." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 2016. http://jcpcsonline.com/.

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The literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.

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Reilly, Elizabeth Lauren. "The "scab" of slavery interracial female solidarity in literature about the antebellum South /." Click for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588773401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Witz, Leslie. "Commemorations and conflicts in the production of South African national pasts : the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22052.

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Bibliography: pages 356-385.<br>This thesis investigates how the icon of Jan van Riebeeck acquired a position of prominence in South African public pasts through the government sponsored festival organised in 1952 to commemorate his landing three hundred years previously. From the seventeenth to the midtwentieth centuries van Riebeeck and the landing in 1652 had, through commemorative events, school text books and the publication of the Dutch East India Company journal for the period when he was commander at the Cape of Good Hope, acquired different meanings. These ranged from conveying Christ

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Coates, Peter Ralph. "The South African Library as a state-aided national library in the era of apartheid : an administrative history." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20094.

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The Public Library in Cape Town was founded in the earliest days of British civil rule in Southern Africa, as a Government-funded free library of reference with the purpose of educating and enculturating the 'youth' of the Cape Colony along European (especially English) lines. Government funding being withdrawn in 1829, the Library became an autonomous subscription library while continuing to provide access to its reference collections free of charge. During the ensuing 125 years the Library (known as the South African (Public) Library) becameincreasingly dependenton Government financial aid t

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McKenzie, Kirsten. "The South African Commercial Advertiser and the making of middle class identity in early nineteenth-century Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22520.

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Bibliography: pages 232-239.<br>This project constitutes a close textual analysis of The South African Commercial Advertiser in the years 1824 and 1830 - 1831. It uses this text to explore issues around the making of colonial identity in Cape Town during the early nineteenth century, making use of post-structuralist theories about discourse and the textual nature of historical reality. It therefore hopes to build on already existing work which concerns this period, but which does not directly address issues of cultural change in this way. The study commences with an account of the Advertiser's

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Craig, Dylan. "The viewer as conscript : dynamic struggles for ideological supremacy in the South African Border War film, 1971-1988." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10300.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Fourteen South African films made between 1971 and 1988, and dealing with the Border War, are examined. The focus of this examination is on the ways in which films were used to persuade the white public to accept the legitimacy of the Border War. The period under examination is one during which the Apartheid government moved South African society ever closer to what has been termed a 'garrison state'. Rather than following the approach indicated by the notion of 'film as history', the current work attempts to use films as sources of data to explicate the

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Geddes, Robert John William. "The unsettled colony : contruction of aboriginality in late colonial South Australian popular historical fiction and memoir /." Title page, contents and conclusions only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arg295.pdf.

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Williams, Jenna Elizabeth. "A changing didacticism : the development of South African young adult fiction from 1985 to 2006." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004293.

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This thesis endeavours to establish how political transformation in South Africa has impacted on the didactic function of locally produced young adult fiction between the years of 1985 and 2006. To this end, a selection of young adult novels and short stories are examined in relation to the time period during which they were written or are set, namely the final years of apartheid (from 1985 to the early 1990s), the period of transition from apartheid to democracy (approximately 1991 to 1997), and the early years of the twenty-first century (2000 to 2006). Chapter One provides a brief overview

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Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred. "Representations of troubled childhoods in selected post-1990 African fiction in English." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79874.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores representations of troubled childhoods in post-1990 African narratives. Defining troubled childhoods as the experiences of children exposed to different forms of violations including physical, psychological, sexual and emotional abuse, the study reflects on depictions of such experiences in a selection of contemporary African fictional texts in English. The study‘s central thesis is that, while particular authors‘ deployment of affective writing techniques offers implicit analysis of troubled childhoods, the k

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Van, Schoor Catherine. "South African teenagers reading about themselves in fiction : their response within the cultural practice of reading in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11593.

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Bibliography: leaves 126-134.<br>The Young Africa Awards Series (YAA) was commissioned as a competition challenging South African writers to produce novels for teenagers that were relevant to their lived reality in South African society today. All the novels examined in this dissertation can be defined as realism. In this study the text is examined as a written locus of meanings around which are constellated oral and written discourses that frame the text. I discuss the ideology operating through the competition's publishers and judges. I also examine the meaning produced through the YAA compe

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Marais, Susan Jacqueline. "(Re-)inventing our selves/ourselves : identity and community in contemporary South African short fiction cycles." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016357.

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In this study I focus on a number of collections of short fiction by the South African writers Joël Matlou, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb and Ivan Vladislavić, all of which evince certain of the characteristics of short story cycles or sequences. In other words, they display what Forrest L. Ingram describes as “a double tendency of asserting the individuality of [their] components on the one hand and of highlighting, on the other, the bonds of unity which make the many into a single whole”. The cycle form, thus defined, is characterised by a paradoxical yet productive and frequently unresolved te

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Madingwane, June. "Kaffirmeid and other stories." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015659.

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Kuit, Henali. "Dear space dad and other stories." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017774.

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My stories are set around the themes of family, animals and outer space -- which leads to other themes like religion, loneliness, romance, eating animals, growing up and longing for the past. Most of the stories have non-linear structures. Some use gradual shiftings of narrator voice; in others the narrative is flat, lacking plot. I favour repetition over plot-based climaxes to create coherency and narrative flow. I also favour free indirect discourse over dialogue or description as a means to characterize.

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