Browsing by Author "Chirambo, Reuben"

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    Emerging HIV communities and self : the representation of self and community in South African HIV/AIDS literature
    (2010) Cumpsty, Rebekah; Clarkson, Carrol; Chirambo, Reuben
    HIV/AIDS is a prominent part of contemporary South African experience that has found expression in many forms, one of which is literature. This thesis analyses the relation between self and community as it is represented in South African HIV/AIDS literature. The argument of the thesis is underpinned by a dual theoretical strand.
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    Representations of post-2000 displacement in Zimbabwean women's literature
    (2012) Musekiwa, Ivy Shutu; Chirambo, Reuben
    This study examines literature by Zimbabwean women that explores evictions and migrations of people from 2000 to 2009 when the crisis subsided with the enactment of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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    Rhyming youth with death : what we might learn from HIV/AIDS fiction in South Africa
    (2012) Adams, Betony; Chirambo, Reuben
    That the interpretation of disease, its fictionalisation, might prompt negative responses is an issue that has been addressed by various people. Of which one of the better known examples is Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor & Aids and its Metaphors. In South Africa the negative effects of reading HIV/AIDS as metaphoric are borne out by the shame and stigma which make acknowledging and treating the disease difficult. While recognising the relevance of being against the interpretation of disease this thesis is an attempt to argue for what we can learn from considering the metaphors that constitute what might be called the official fiction, that is, literary fiction, about HIV/AIDS in South Africa. I will focus generally on how metaphor might offer a singular way of communicating the experience of the diseased body in the context of the abstracting expertise of modem medicine. And I will also examine two instances in which metaphor and fiction might give specific insight into the experience of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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    Urbanisation, Shona culture and Zimbabwean literature
    (2011) Mancuveni, Melania; Chirambo, Reuben
    This thesis examines the impact of urbanisation on Zimbabwean culture, particularly the Shona culture as it is represented in Zimbabwean literature. My main argument in this thesis is that Zimbabwean literature suggests that urbanisation is harmful and destructive to the Shona culture and the way of life of the Shona people.