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Nxopaxopo ya matikhomelo ya vasati va tinghamula eka matsalwa ya Xitsonga lama hlawuriweke / An investigation into the behaviour of rich men's wives in selected Xitsonga textsMathebula, X. L. January 2015 (has links)
Thesis (M. A. (Xitsonga)) -- University of Limpopo,2015 / The purpose of this study is to analyse the behaviour of tycoon’s wives in the selected
literature, namely; Ndzhaka ya vusiwana by B.K.M. Mtombeni and Mangava ya Joni by
D.R.Maluleke. In Ndzhaka ya vusiwana two stories were analysed, namely; “Mudlayi wo
tidlaya” and “Vubombi bya swolomba”. In Mangava ya Joni two stories were analysed,
namely; “Xiwelano” and “Xihahisile”. Textual analysis was used in this study to analyse
the behaviour of tycoons’ wives. Textual analysis is the method communication
researchers use to describe and interpret the characteristics of a recorded and visual
message. The purpose of textual analysis is to describe the content, structure and
functions of the messages contained in texts.
This study was attempted to answer the following questions:
What is the behaviour of the wives of tycoons in Xihungasi and Mangava ya Joni?”
What influenced the wives of tycoons to have such behaviour?
What are the benefits of such behaviour?
The findings of the study revealed that in most cases, the wives of tycoons have good
behaviour. They love their rich husbands and children, are very hardworking and they
respect other people. The findings of this study also revealed that in most cases the
tycoons have various behaviour patterns. Some tycoons have good behaviour while
others are violent, hate other people and dishonest. The findings of this study also
revealed that the wives of tycoons are influenced by their childhood behaviour,
neighbours and friends. Their love to their husbands also influence them to behave
properly.
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Inside the house of truth : the construction, destruction and reconstruction of Can ThembaMahala, Siphiwo 11 1900 (has links)
This study is, by its intention at any rate, an attempt at assembling the scattered fragments of
Can Themba’s life to make a composite being out of the various existing phenomena that
shaped the contours of his life in both literary and literal senses.
Given the disjunctive manner in which Can Themba and his work have been represented thus
far, a combination of Historical and Biographical research methods will underpin the approach
of this study. The resultant approach is the Historical-Biographical method of research.
According to Guerin et al (2005, 22) the Historical-Biographical approach “sees the work
chiefly, if not exclusively, as the reflection of author’s life and times or the life and times of
the characters in the work.”
This research is premised on the conviction that an individual is a constellation of multiple
factors that play a pivotal role in the construction of their persona. These factors will be traced
from his family background, early schooling, tertiary education, socio-economic conditions as
well as his contribution to various newspapers and journals.
While so much has been written about Themba and his work, there is no comprehensive
biography of Can Themba as a person. Most importantly, the factors that contributed to his
making as well as his breaking, or destruction, have not been interrogated in a form of
comprehensive academic research.
Rightly or wrongly, Themba’s meteoric rise into the South African literary canon is often traced
from the moment he won the inaugural Drum Magazine short story competition. Themba
became one of the most popular journalists and rose within the ranks of Drum to become the
Assistant Editor. However, my research demonstrates that winning the Drum short story
competition was the culmination of a literary talent that was developed and had been simmering
for a number of years. Themba studied at the University of Fort Hare between 1945 and 1951
alongside the likes of Dennis Brutus, Ntsu Mokhehle, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe,
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and many other prominent individuals. He was a regular contributor to
The Fortharian, a university publication that published opinion pieces, poems and short stories.
This is a vital component of Themba’s intellectual growth and it remains the least explored
aspect of his life. As a result, what has been discursively documented by various scholars,
writers and journalists, thus far, is a very parochial representation of Can Themba’s oeuvre. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English Literature)
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Women's relationships female friendship in Toni Morrison's Sula and Love, Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Sefi Atta's Everything good will come /Sy, Kadidia. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Renee Schatteman, committee chair; Chris Kocela, Margaret Harper, committee members. Electronic text (158 [i.e. 156] p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed 23 June 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-156).
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Memory and cultural trauma : women of color in literature and film /Hua, Anh. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Women's Studies. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-201). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNR11579
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Theorising the environment in fiction: exploring ecocriticism and ecofeminism in selected black female writers’ worksPasi, Juliet Sylvia 09 1900 (has links)
Text in English / This thesis investigates the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world or natural environment in selected literary works by black female writers in colonial and post-colonial Namibia and Zimbabwe. Some Anglo-American scholars have argued that many African writers have resisted the paradigms that inform much of global ecocriticism and have responded to it weakly. They contend that African literary feminist studies have not attracted much mainstream attention yet mainly to raise some issues concerning ecologically oriented literary criticism and writing. Given this unjust criticism, the study posits that there has been a growing interest in ecocriticism and ecofeminism in literary works by African writers, male and female, and they have represented the social, political (colonial and anti-colonial) and economic discourse in their works. The works critiqued are Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). The thrust of this thesis is to draw interconnections between man’s domination of nature and the subjugation and dominance of black women as depicted in different creative works. The texts in this study reveal that the existing Anglo-American framework used by some scholars to define ecocriticism and ecofeminism should open up and develop debates and positions that would allow different ways of reading African literature. The study underscored the possibility of black female creative works to transform the definition of nature writing to allow an expansion and all encompassing interpretation of nature writing. Contrary to the claims by Western scholars that African literature draws its vision of nature writing from the one produced by colonial discourse, this thesis argues that African writers and scholars have always engaged nature and the environment in multiple discourses. This study breaks new ground by showing that the feminist aspects of ecrocriticism are essential to cover the hermeneutic gap created by their exclusion. On closer scrutiny, the study reveals that African women writers have also addressed and highlighted issues that show the link between African women’s roles and their environment. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
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Smoothing out the rough edges: postcolonial spaces and postcolonial subjectivities in Le petit prince de Belleville and The celestial jukeboxUnknown Date (has links)
Both Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville, published in France in 1992, and Cynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox, published in the United States in 2005, explore similar questions regarding the place of immigrants in increasingly multicultural societies. Gilles Deleuze and Fâelix Guattari's concept of - smoothness and - striation illuminates the settings of these two texts, helping demonstrate that the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville presents a striated space dominated by State constraints, from which the residents yearn to break free, and the fictional town of Madagascar, Mississippi consists of relatively smooth space that allows for local improvisation and engenders insecurity. The stories of Loukoum and Boubacar illustrate how these two characters negotiate their respective spaces, with Loukoum creating a position thoroughly between striated majority French culture and the smoothness of his diasporic sphere and Boubacar functioning as a rhizomatic nomad, embarking on an autonomous journey of discovery. / by Karyn H. Anderson. / Signature page unsigned. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Writing black: the South African short story by black writersGaylard, Rob 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (DLitt (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / This study attempts a re-reading and re-evaluation of the work of black South African short story writers from R.R.R. Dhlomo (circa 1930) to Zoë Wicomb (at the end of the 1980s). The short story, along with the autobiography, was the dominant genre of black writing during this period, and the reasons for this are examined, as well as the ways in which black writers adapt or transform this familiar literary genre. The title – “Writing Black” – alludes to well-known works by Richard Rive (Writing Black) and J.M. Coetzee (White Writing), and foregrounds the issue of race and racialised identities. While one would not want to neglect other factors (class, gender), it is hardly possible to underestimate the impact of racial classification during the apartheid era. However, the difficulty of asserting the unproblematic existence of a homogeneous “black” identity also becomes evident.
The approach adopted here reflects the need to recognise both the singularity of particular texts (their “literariness”) as well as their embeddedness in their particular place and time (their “worldliness” or their “circumstantiality”). Literary texts are complex verbal artefacts of an unusual kind, but they cannot be separated from their contexts of production and reception; black writing in this country would be largely incomprehensible if this were not taken into account. Close attention is given to the obvious spatial, temporal and ideological shifts in South African cultural production during this period, and to the two major phases of black writing (the Sophiatown and District Six writers of the 50s, and the Staffrider writers of the 70s and 80s). The work of these writers is not, however, subsumed into a political meta-narrative. In particular, this study resists the tendency to lump the work of black writers into one large, undifferentiated category (“protest writing” or “spectacular” representation). This approach has had the effect of flattening out or homogenising a body of work that is much more varied and interesting than many critical accounts would suggest. Finally, the contribution of three writers of the “interregnum” (Ndebele, Matlou, Wicomb) is explored. What is of particular interest is their break from established conventions of representation: their work reveals a willingness to resist over-simplification, to experiment, and to explore issues of identity and gender. By examining these texts from the vantage point of the post-apartheid present, one is able to arrive at an enhanced understanding of the form that black writing took under apartheid, and the pressures to which it was responding.
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Tactics of the habitat: the elusive identity of Nat NakasaAcott, Heather Margaret 31 October 2008 (has links)
In this dissertation on Nat Nakasa I argue, in Chapter 1, that he is one of South Africa's first literary flaneurs. Walking the city as an urban spectator, part journalist, part sociologist, his modernist writings of the metropolis celebrate Johannesburg and also place him in a broad international context.
His `tactics of the habitat', in Foucault's phrase, become subversive ruses, a navigation through the cultural seam of South Africa in the 1960s, and this approach offers an alternative to a reductionist anti-apartheid critique.
Chapter 2 analyses the excavation of his memory and subsequent elevation to media icon, with the naming of the SANEF Award for Media Integrity after him. Chapter 3 discusses how his auto/biographical writings and representation of self and other contribute to `making history's silences speak'. Finally in chapter 4, I discuss his elusive identity as part of the Drum generation, an insider/outsider, and his exile and suicide in America. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /Jones, Esther L. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2011 Aug 15
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Restoring the imprisoned community : a study of selected works of H. I. E. and R. R. R. Dhlomo and their role in constructing a sense of African modernity.Smith, Stephen. January 2004 (has links)
This is a comparative study of a selection of the works of H.I.E. and R.R.R. Dhlomo in an attempt to specify the ways in which both writers contributed to constructing a sense of African modernity. While the focus will be on the content of the writing, it will include an analysis of the form and style of the literature, as well as the historical and political setting of the work, and of the authors. By employing the theoretical work of Alain Locke, David Attwell and Tim Couzens, I will address the issue of how Herbert and Rolfes Dhlomo negotiate the issue of a Christian modernity, as well as the ambiguous relationship between tradition and modernity. Another matter that I will focus on is that of the differences and similarities of their writing, in terms of aesthetics and their positions vis-a-vis tradition, modernity and the role of the Black subject, among other topics. Some questions that I will address are whether they are both contributing to an African modernity, and in what sense, and whether Rolfes' work complements that of Herbert, and vice versa. This will be done through a close reading of selected works across a
range of mediums, from literary texts such as plays, poems and short stories to the print media. In the Introduction I will outline the key theoretical work and definitions that I will make use of in my research, as well as give brief biographies of the two writers under examination. In Chapter One I will make a close reading of selected works of Herbert Dhlomo, and will attempt to show his changing role in the establishment of a sense of an African modernity.
In Chapter Two the focus of my work will be selected prose fiction of Rolfes Dhlomo. I will examine the major themes of these works, and show how they pertain to a sense of an African modernity. In Chapter Three I will examine Rolfes Dhlomo's "R. Roamer Esq." column from the Bantu World. I have selected in particular the year 1941, and I will show how Rolfes Dhlomo used satire and topical issues to help in the creation of a sense of African modernity. The Conclusion deals with the findings of my research on the role that Herbert and Rolfes Dhlomo played in the creation of an African modernity in South Africa. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.
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