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(Routledge, 2021)This essay is a fictocritical meditation upon the contemporary transformation of temporal experience as we find ourselves embarked upon an accelerating process of climate change and species extinction, including possibly ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue is a book about political transition, the new South Africa, and the challenges of transformation, but it is also a book about sewage. Toilets, outhouses and worms feature prominently, as ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2021-05)Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel Kintu (2014) places alongside forms of historical fiction familiar to European readers, a form of historical causality that obeys a different logic, namely, one governed by the long-term ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This thesis critiques the representations, and lacunas in representation, of teenage girls’ sexual desires in a selection of young adult (YA) novels written since the turn of the millenium, considering their contributions ...
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(Routledge, 2021-03)The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the translator of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales into Afrikaans in the dual contexts of the ideological milieu that dominated the Afrikaans literary scene and of the literary ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Houses in literature are an important signifier, and for Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. ...
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(Routledge, 2021)In April 2019, Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, colleagues from the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based in Johannesburg, undertook a trip to the Antarctic peninsula. In this article, they discuss their ...
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(Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 2020)Is there room, as Natasha Distiller asked in 2012, for a “close encounter” with Shakespeare in post-apartheid South Africa? This question has become increasingly pertinent. Following the Fallist movements which were ignited ...
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(Indiana University Press, 2020)Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon opens with a swordfish narrator who watches aliens while they populate the Nigerian waters. Unlike the narrator, who is entirely at home in the ocean, the aliens cannot breathe water with the same ...
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(Routledge, 2020)Set in 2023, Lauren Beukes’s Afterland captures the devastating effects of a global viral pandemic. About three years prior, a highly contagious virus, called the human culgoa virus (HCV), induced terminal prostate ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This special issue hosts a conversation between Ilha de Moçambique and its surrounding oceans and coastlines, convening a globally-oriented set of questions around a rich engagement with the local, and in so doing among ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Repellents play a key role in preventing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria by reducing human-vector contact. The general mechanism of action relies on providing a repelling vapour around the applied area on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Of all human identity categories such as race, religion, culture, class and gender that a person might belong to, race and gender are arguably two of the most contentious in the world. This study takes gender as its main ...
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(UNISA Press, 2021-07)The concept of the public intellectual is yet to be well engaged in Nigerian scholarship. While it has been implied in many critical works on writers, activists, journalists, lawyers, and others, the concept of the public ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study explores, through detailed analysis, the many and varied depictions of mothering, in a broad sense, in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women series, published between 1868 and 1886, and in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis is concerned with T.S. Eliot’s exploration and depiction of art in his Four Quartets. Central to this investigation is the logos/flux paradigm, which is established by the two quotations from Herakleitos, a 6th ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)By examining critically poems in which Sylvia Plath’s speakers appear as daughters, wives, and mothers, this study situates Plath as an artist operating within Romantic and Modernist traditions of exemplary suffering. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Traditionally the hero of any story in the Fantasy genre has been decidedly and overwhelmingly male, with female representation being limited to that of sidekicks and damsels in distress. With the rise of the Second Wave ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This dissertation builds on existing critical scholarship on woman and madness in postcolonial literature. According to previous studies, critics observe the space madwoman are pushed into in cultures that see them as ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The aim of this thesis on the Victorian poet/novelist George Meredith is to analyse the philosophical and psychological aspects of some of his poetry in relation to his reputation as a ‘difficult’ author. The study attempts ...
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