• Thuma mina : debates about South African literature in English and implications for high school curricula 

  Maungedzo, Robert Ndanduleni (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The beginning of the demise of apartheid in 1990 with the release of Nelson Mandela and the formal end of apartheid with the first democratic elections in 1994 were conceived by some to spell the death of South African ...
• In an other world : representations of the other in queer African speculative short stories 

  Shaw, Micaela Jade (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This dissertation examines the manner in which queer African speculative fiction short stories navigate the other – that which is perceived as not belonging, or being outside of what is considered ―normal‖ – and how this ...
• Landscapes of violence, galleries of crime : gender violence in selected post-apartheid crime novels written by women 

  Madziyauswa, Tafirenyika (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This thesis aims to interrogate the ways in which gender violence is portrayed in selected crime novels written by South African women writers. This thesis contends that the fictional texts written by South African female ...
• Queer spaces, the body, and the text in Frank O’Hara’s lunch poems 

  Muller, Johanine (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation explores how queer spaces are created in Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964). It investigates the definition of queer spaces and how these spaces can be created in literature. It uses the history of queer ...
• Border thinking as literary imaginations : rereading decolonial entanglements in fiction by Bessie Head, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa 

  Ncube, Ndumiso (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The thesis Border thinking as literary imaginations: Rereading decolonial entanglements in fiction by Bessie Head, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa is inspired by the contemporary decolonial debates and draws both from ...
• Haunting and Queerness in Selected Post-2000s African Short Fiction 

  Gaspar, Kegan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation discusses post-2000s queer African short fiction in the context of haunting.
• The Agency of the Servant : Reframing Domestic Service in Contemporary South African Popular Forms 

  Ndweni, Angela Naomi (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  Representations of domestic workers and their relationships with employers occur in several fictional/non-fictional post-apartheid narratives in South Africa, including chick-lit, self-help literature and television series. ...
• Products of dystopia : Philip K. Dick’s reflections on uncomfortable social realities in three novels 

  Visagie, Jeandre (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation explores ways in which a selection of Philip K. Dick’s novels express the idea of products produced in a dystopian setting and how these products reflect uncomfortable social realities. The first novel ...
• H. P. Lovecraft's monsters of modernity read through J. J. Cohen's 'Seven Monster Theses' 

  Olivier, Cuan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation offers a unified application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’ (first introduced in Cohen’s 1996 Monster Theory: Reading Culture), and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890-1937) Supernatural ...
• Using Plain Language for effective interdisciplinary science communication 

  Van Staden, Antoinique (University of Pretoria, 2022-08)

  Globalization, rapid technological advances and complex problems require scientists to cross-collaborate to solve problems, and to compete for funding in an interdisciplinary arena. This involves communication across ...
• Toward a metafictional aesthetic in the Netflix television series, You : ambiguity, genre and spectatorship 

  Oosthuizen, Jenine (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  My research study provides a critical analysis of the Netflix series You (2018) and seeks to provide an answer as to why the show and its protagonist engenders paradoxical interpretations that alternate between two ...
• Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf 

  Krynauw, Marieke (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This thesis explores representations of intercorporeality in a selection of Virginia Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction, in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on phenomenology and ontology. This study offers ...
• “The iron fist, the leather glove, and the woollen mitten” : gender performance(s), complicity, and complacency in written and screen versions of Aunt Lydia from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments 

  Weiss, Jordyn Jade (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation examines the different gender performances, complicities, and complacencies demonstrated by three versions of the character Aunt Lydia: first, the Aunt Lydia of the novel version of The Handmaid’s Tale; ...
• 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 ...
• ‘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. ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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