Browsing PhD / Doctoral by Department "African Languages and Literatures"

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A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)

Author: Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso Date: 1990 The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary ... Read more
An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry

Author: Gambahaya, Zifikile Date: 1998 This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence ... Read more
Country and city: a study of autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's novel Litshona limpume

Author: Macabela, Monwabisi Victor Date: 2012 The title of this thesis, Country and City - Autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's Litshona Liphume arises out of a complex understanding of the author's narrative and literary intentions. Country refers to the fact that the story is set ... Read more
A critical exposition of historicism and implicit activism in Elundini Lothukela

Author: Kwetana, Washington Mntuwoxolo Date: 2000 It is the gentle but sharp manner of refutation of negative labels that early Europeans, through negative and undermining othering, attached to the Nguni in South Africa, that was investigated and discovered in this novel, that the author of ... Read more
Eastern Shona : a comparative dialect study

Author: Borland, C H Date: 1970 In this paper, the speech patterns of eleven individuals living in the Eastern half of Rhodesia are described and compared. Each individual was selected as being representative of a number of localities described in the map below. The first ... Read more
The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour

Author: Dowling, Tessa Date: 1996 In this thesis I examine the way in which Xhosa speakers create humour, what forms (e.g. satire, irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The ... Read more
Gender and humour; Complexities of women's image politics in Shona humourous narratives

Author: Masowa, Angeline Date: 2017 Humour represents an ideal site for understanding how everyday social dynamics influence ideology and the social structure (Sue & Golash-Boza, 2013:4). This research is an examination of how gender is expressed in Shona humour. Particular ... Read more
Gender-konstruksies in die afrikaanse letterkunde : 'n ondersoek in kultuurstudies, litterêre teorie en kreatiewe skryfwerk

Author: Hambidge, Joan Date: 2000 This thesis argues that gender is a construct or a choice. The different gender positions (feminisms, masculinities, homosexualities et al.) are read against modem literary theory. When applicable a particular theory is tested from a creative ... Read more
Land and identity in Zimbabwean fiction writings in English from 2000 to 2010 critical analysis

Author: Magosvongwe, Ruby Date: 2014 The major aim of this study is to analyse how Zimbabwean literary voices across the racial divide explore the land-identity conundrum that is hotly contested in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's post-2000 land occupations and other redistribution ... Read more
Language differentiation and gender in Southern Sotho

Author: Rapeane, Maleshoane Date: 2003 Bibliography: leaves 211-225. Read more
The life and works of Isaac William(s) Wauchope

Author: Nyamende, Abner Date: 2000 Bibliography: [355]-364. Read more
Literature between two worlds : the first fifty years of the Xhosa novel and poetry

Author: Zotwana, Sydney Zanemvula Date: 1993 The main preoccupation in this thesis is to illustrate that, although there is no doubt that the missionaries deserve all the praise that they have been showered with, for their role in the development of Xhosa literature, there is a sense ... Read more
The morphology of central Shona : with prefatory chapters on the phonetics and phonology

Author: Fortune, George Date: 1950 The following work consists of a study of the morphology of some of the Central Shona dialect-groups, with two prefatory chapters which deal with Central Shona phonetics and phonology. Of the Central Shona dialect-groups I have taken Zezuru ... Read more
Ngugi wa Thiongo and third world postcolonialism

Author: Lee, Seok-Ho Date: 2001 This study investigates the ambivalent traits of third world postcolonialism. Third world postcolonialism appears as an antithesis against the logical fallacy of the binary oppositions performed by the contemporary first world postcolonial ... Read more
The sound system of Southern Sotho

Author: Kunene, Daniel P Date: 1961 Southern Sotho is spoken mainly in Basutoland and its immediate surroundings, but is also found sporadically, because of the migration of its speakers, in other parts of the Republic of South Africa. Together with Northern Sotho and Tswana, ... Read more
A study of the auxiliary in Sesotho

Author: Chaphole, Solomon Rampasane Date: 1988 The Auxiliary is a sadly neglected field of study in Southern African languages. The study investigates the syntactic and semantic behaviour of Auxiliaries in Sesotho. Having established that there is a category AUX in Sesotho, we then developed ... Read more
A study of theme and technique in the creative works of S.E.K.L.N. Mqhayi

Author: Qangule, Zitobile Sunshine Date: 1979 S.E.K. Mqhayi has been declared the most successful of all the modern Xhosa writers. He has been proclaimed "The Shakespeare of the Xhosa language". The showering of such praises upon a man have prompted us to study some of his major views ... Read more
uPeter Tshobisa Mtuze neenoveli zakhe

Author: Ndlela, Lulama Judith Date: 2015 This thesis is about the author, Peter Tshobiso Mtuze, pertaining to his life and works. Mtuze is one of the prominent writers of isiXhosa. He is a highly endowed writer who has produced books in all literature genres: drama, novel, short ... Read more