• The Desiring Girl and Young Adult Fiction 

  Kneen, Bonnie (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 ...
• Translating taboo: blasphemy in an Afrikaans translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales 

  Boje, Johannes Gerhardus (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 ...
• ‘Little houses lovable’: The portrayal of houses and homes in selected novels by L.M. Montgomery 

  Van Heerden, Jeanne-Marie (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. ...
• Reading in Antarctica 

  Hofmeyr, Isabel; Lavery, Charne (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 ...
• Close encounters : staging Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra in contemporary South Africa 

  De Waal, Marguerite Florence (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 ...
• Fish out of water : black superheroines in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon 

  Moonsamy, Nedine (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 ...
• Lauren Beukes discusses Afterland (2020) 

  Moonsamy, Nedine (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 ...
• Thinking oceanically : Ilha de Moçambique/Island of Mozambique 

  Lavery, Charne; Hofmeyr, Isabel (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 ...
• A novel pseudo-azeotrope mosquito repellent mixture 

  Izadi, Homa (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 ...
• The Negotiation of Gender and Patriarchy in Selected Nigerian and South African Plays 

  Oloruntoba, Albert Olatunde (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 ...
• A conversation with Nigerian playwright and public intellectual Ahmed Yerima 

  Oloruntoba, Albert Olatunde (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 ...
• The shape of motherhood in selected novels by Louisa May Alcott and Lucy Maud Montgomery 

  Callaghan, Kaleela Shelby (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 ...
• “Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves” : T.S. Eliot’s exploration and depiction of the nature, process and purpose of art in his Four Quartets 

  Dey, Kirsten Charisse (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 ...
• Exemplary Sufferer : Daughterhood, Wifehood, Motherhood in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath 

  Nöffke, Tobias Georg (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 ...
• Voices of the Lioness : representation of female characters in selected YA Fantasy series by Ursula K Le Guin and Tamora Pierce 

  Bentley, Harriet (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 ...
• ‘A powerful thing to be seen’ : Depictions of woman’s madness in selected contemporary fiction from India, South Africa and Nigeria 

  Marshal, Treesa (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 ...
• ‘The Fascination of What’s Difficult’ : The Philosophy and Psychology of George Meredith’s Poetry 

  Steyn, Dewald Mauritz (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 ...
• Apprehending global civilisation in The Magic Lamp : giving the world a new literature 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2020)

  The argument in this article is that Ben Okri’s ekphrastic The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age (London: Apollo, 2017) reveals an ontopoietic or heightened awareness literature of the “imagiNation”, to borrow a neologism from ...
• The portrayal of subjectivity in selected dystopian novels 

  Naudé, Bernard (University of Pretoria, 2015)

  In his Truth and Method, Gadamer explains that subjectivity is the everyday understanding that allows us to engage with the world. Gadamer identifies three main aspects that effect our understanding, namely history, language ...
• Diving into the slave wreck : the São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora 

  Lavery, Charne (Routledge, 2020)

  The first slave wreck to be definitively identified is the São José-Paquete de Africa, a slave ship from Mozambique Island wrecked off the coast of Cape Town. This paper takes that wreck as case study and context for the ...

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