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Road to redemptionSingh, Anirood January 2014 (has links)
Lurching from day-today in the months before South Africa becomes a republic, booze-befuddled Indian private investigator Rohit Biswas does not ponder how he can secure his daughter's future after he became a widower and lost his job as police detective when he killed a man who fatally stabbed his wife. Salvation appears when a rich client hires the PI to find evidence proving his son did not rape and murder a white socialite. Fighting against seeming impossible odds in colonial-apartheid Durban and a sanctions-busting conspiracy, Biswas secures his client's acquittal. In the process he defies karma and redeems himself.
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Kaffirmeid and other storiesMadingwane, June January 2014 (has links)
These stories are about people’s experiences in relationships and how they overcome and resolve problems with their partners. Some explore myths and unexplained occurrences that raise many questions.
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The gentle pressure of the skyWatermeyer, Laura January 2015 (has links)
A collection of lyrical, imaginative prose, ranging from prose poems to more formal short stories to flash fiction. I challenge the ordinary or commonplace by exploring the realms between fiction and poetry, realism and fantasy, reality and illusion. I would like reading the collection to be a sensory experience, one that draws the reader deeper into the imaginary. Stylistically, I work elements of poetic language into the narrative in order to express the mystery and remoteness that the stories require.
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Writing the Diaspora : a bibliography and critical commentary on post-Shoah English-language fiction in Australia, South Africa, and CanadaHart, Alexander 05 1900 (has links)
In the aftermath of the Shoah (Holocaust)—the mass murder of 6,000,000
Jews—Jean-Paul Sartre wrote Reflexions sur la Question Juive (1946), in which he
concluded that the fate of the Jews, the fate of the individual non-Jew, and the fate of the entire world are inextricably and reciprocally intertwined. Building on Sartre's perception, Portrait of a Jew (1962) and The Liberation of the Jew (1966) describe what the author, Albert Memmi, terms "the universal Jewish fate": that of being the paradigmatic "colonized" Other—insofar as the Jews are a particularly oppressed minority, that is, their
marginalization epitomizes the fate of all humanity. Further, Memmi argues both that "to be a Jewish writer is ... to express the Jewish fate" and that a "true Jewish literature" is necessarily one which revolts against the imposition and acceptance of this fate. Sartre's
and Memmi's insights posit that Jewish consciousness acts upon both national and world consciousness. Memmi suggests that one means of expressing the Jewish consciousness is through literature. In their imaginative interpretations of the post-Shoah interconnections between the Jew, the nation, and the world, modern Jewish fiction writers of the Diaspora (dispersion)
—at least those whose work foregrounds tropes of Jewish sensibility, incorporating Jewish characters and themes—often delineate a world which, in the aftermath of Auschwitz, is socially and existentially even more precarious than it was before the war. This study examines post-Shoah Jewish consciousness and its relation to national/world consciousness,as represented in the English-language Jewish fiction of Australia, South Africa, and Canada, Commonwealth countries whose diverse Jewish literatures have been overshadowed by the predominant English-language Jewish literary culture of the U.S.A. The structure of this study is bipartite. Part B is an indexed Bibliography enumerating primary works by Jewish prose fiction writers of Australia, Canada, and South Africa. Part A is a critical commentary on Part B. The Introduction (Chapter 1) outlines the
theoretical bases for the study. The three following chapters scrutinize Jewish Australian (Chapter 2), Jewish South African (Chapter 3), and Jewish Canadian (Chapter 4) fiction. Among the writers considered are Australians B.N. Jubal, Judah Waten, David Martin, Morris Lurie, Serge Liberman, and Lily Brett; South Africans Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, Jillian Becker, Antony Sher, and Rose Zwi; and Canadians Henry Kreisel, A.M. Klein, Adele Wiseman, Mordecai Richler, and Robert Majzels. Each of these three chapters follows a similar format: a description of the origin, history, and demography of the Jewish community; an outline of the important pre-World War II Jewish fiction writers and their work; an examination of representative post-Shoah works; and concluding remarks about
the ways in which the works under consideration here contest and revise both the canons of nation and national literature and the very concepts of nation, canon, and canon-making. An Epilogue (Chapter 5) contextualizes the thematic patterns common to the Jewish fiction of the three countries and suggests ways in which this fiction can be located within the larger framework of Jewish Literature. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Constructions of identity in Marguerite Poland's Shades (1993) and Iron Love (1999)Jacob, Mark Christopher. 31 March 2014 (has links)
In this thesis I will examine Marguerite Poland's two novels, Shades (1993) and
Iron Love (1999) in terms of how they provide constructions of identity in a
particular milieu and at a particular time. In order to do this; the thesis will focus
on Poland's historical context and that of her fiction as represented in these two
works. My primary aim is not to present a particular interpretation of colonial
history, but rather to put into perspective personal, social and cultural identities
that emerge from particular periods in South African history, especially as
pertains to the Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal, and particularly as illustrated
in Poland's fiction.
My approach would be to look at constructions of identity from a feminist as well
as a Marxist perspective: "To Marx, man was a being whose identity and nature
arose out of his purely practical attempts to make his livelihood in what amounts
almost to a struggle with a hostile, physical environment" (Robertson 1985:204).
This implies that socio-historical conditions are largely responsible for forming
ideology and consciousness, which I will argue, is true for Poland's fiction under
discussion. Poland's own position as a broadly liberal feminist will also be
discussed.
I have chosen the above-mentioned novels of Marguerite Poland not only
because she is one of South Africa's leading contemporary writers of children's
literature and adult fiction and has received numerous awards for her books and
stories; but also because she is a most inspirational and perceptive writer
meriting serious academic study. Her novel Shades (1993) - a matric setwork in
1998, 2001 and 2002 - proved highly successful as a setwork and was
nominated for the MNet Fiction Award. Shades deals primarily with love,
dispossession and identity, and the title itself refers to the spiritual manifestation
of those gone before. Poland chose the title because she was writing about her
own 'shades', her ancestors and the role they played in the small valley of the
Mtwaku River in the Eastern Cape at the end of the nineteenth century (Poland
2000). Her core source was her great-grandmother's diaries, which related
anecdotes about life at the St. Matthew's Mission. In 1999, Poland wrote Iron
Love, again using her great-grandmother's diaries, but she insists that this book
is not a sequel to Shades (Jacob 2002). Furthermore, the main character, Charlie
Fraser, is a descendant of Poland's ancestors. In Iron Love (1999) Poland depicts
the role of colonial private schools in indoctrinating young colonial leaders. The
book \\ subtly questions the humanity inherent in a system teaching the
suppression of emotions, sexuality, individuality, freedom"(Webster 2000:8).
The thesis will open with an introduction outlining reasons for my choice of
writer, her novels to be discussed, and the theoretical approaches I intend using.
I will discuss the life and works of Marguerite Poland in an historical context and
discuss the factors that influenced her in the writing of her novels. In this
chapter I will also discuss identity construction in terms of feminist and Marxist
ideology on patriarchy, religion, and capitalism. Chapter Two and Chapter Three
will focus on a literary analysis of Shades (1993) and Iron Love (1999)
respectively. Both novels demonstrate how identity is shaped by socio-historicaI
forces, which I will analyse in depth in this thesis. Chapter Four will conclude my
thesis further confirming the importance of socio-economic forces in determining
ideology as manifested in Poland's fictional characters and in her own life. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2003.
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Somewhere in the double rainbow : representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels.Stobie, Cheryl. January 2005 (has links)
This thesis examines the middle ground between dual strands of sexuality/gender and race/ethnicity, which I refer to metaphorically as a fluid space of possibility between the rainbows of the pride flag, which celebrates sexual diversity, and the image of the rainbow nation, which celebrates multiculturalism. I discuss ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues and rights have been discursively treated in the West as well as Africa, most particularly South Africa. I note that a substantial number of novels which appeared after 1994 and have a South African setting or were authored by South Africans, employ the trope of bisexuality. This new preoccupation with bisexuality is parallel to attitudes towards change, the future, and progressive politics, including gender politics. Representations of bisexuality in each of the texts I examine vary; however, together they form a crucial cartography of a liberalization of the imagination in post-apartheid South Africa: a space of anxiety and hope, a space particularly revealing the ongoing evolution of a national identity, and newly part of a global community. Reading bisexuality accurately contributes to the disruption of binaries and illumination of the interstitial associated with the post-apartheid moment in general, and contemporary South African literature and literary criticism in particular. This method of reading, which I call "biopia," allows for a fresh understanding of sexuality, gender, race, citizenship and authority. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.
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Translating South Africa's transition : Ivan Vladislavi*c's Missing persons in French.Toniolo, Giuditta. January 2008 (has links)
This short dissertation is based on the comparative analysis of Ivan VladislaviC's short-story collection, Missing Persons (1989) and its French (Belgian) translation, Portes Disparus (1997). The thematic concerns of the source text - produced in South Africa at a time of "increasing socio-political upheaval and transition" (Wood 2001: 21) - add interest to such an investigation, providing insights into how South Africa's transition to democracy has been re-written for a Belgian Francophone audience. In line with recent debates in the field of Translation Studies, the study addresses the central problem of cross-cultural transfer, by embracing two essentially systemic approaches to the study of translated literature: Descriptive Translation Studies (or DTS), and Polysystem Theory. In addition, Lambert and Van Gorp's "Hypothetical Scheme for Describing Translations" is used to investigate and explain the strategies adopted by the translators to transfer concepts that are culturally and historically specific to a transitional South Africa. The initial hypothesis to be tested is that, while Portes Disparus is mainly the product of strategies of 'domestication', it also displays traces of 'foreignisation', which suggest broadly ideological, rather than purely linguistic, motivations on the part of the translators. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Magic realism and images of the transition of Zakes Mda's Ways of dying (1995)Bheamadu, Nalini. January 2004 (has links)
No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A)--University of Durban-Westville, 2004.
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Representations of African identity in nineteenth and twentieth century Francophone literatureWardle, Nancy E., January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).
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Rehab is for quittersMaharaj, Keshav January 2014 (has links)
My collection has the common theme of addiction: addictive personalities strung across the pages. Not only the usual addictions such as the daily-ritualized beer or joint, but also the pain of addiction to anti-social habits, pathologies, forbidden love, etc. I try to capture the behavior and life that surrounds addictions too: relationships, rehab, criminal behavior, all sorts of abuse, etc. Some of the stories are heavy-handed, slapping the reader in the face, some are subtler. Some are told with lightness and humor, some with gravity.
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