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Eppel, Ruth. „The limitations and possiblilites of identity and form in selected recent memoirs and novels by white, female Zimbabwean writers : Alexandra Fuller, Lauren Liebenberg“. Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001985.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleWalker, Victoria Carborne. „The fiction of Anna Kavan (1901-1968)“. Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8627.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleSmillie, Rachel Jane. „The lady vanishes : women writers and the development of detective fiction“. Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225765.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleMagosvongwe, Ruby. „Land and identity in Zimbabwean fiction writings in English from 2000 to 2010 critical analysis“. Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9292.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThe 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 processes. It aims to interrogate how the selected fictional narratives depict both long-held views and emerging perspectives on Zimbabwe's land question. Further, the study examines the land realities that the writers depict with a view to promoting national dialogue. The latter aims to promote greater social cohesion, peace and oneness that are critical for more sustainable human development in post-independence Zimbabwe.
Mukherjee, Srilata. „Truncated transgressions : fictions of female authorship by British women writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries /“. Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004346.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleChern, Joanne. „Restoring, Rewriting, Reimagining: Asian American Science Fiction Writers and the Time Travel Narrative“. Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/449.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleMacedo, Lynne. „Fiction and film : the influence of cinema on writers from Trinidad and Jamaica 1950-1985“. Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63585/.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleChihota, Clement. „Towards Marxist stylistics: incorporating elements of critical discourse analysis into Althusserian Marxist criticism in the interpretation of selected Zimbabwean fiction“. Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13117.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThe thesis - which locates itself at the interface between linguistic and literary studies - explores the possibility of developing a ‘Marxist- stylistic’ method of text interpretation, which primarily proceeds from Althusserian Marxist Criticism, but which also incorporates salient elements of Critical Discourse Analysis. In construction of the method, the thesis first investigates the need for Althusserian Marxist criticism to be mediated, and more specifically, the areas in which this mediation is required. The thesis then crosses over to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis where it identifies relevant theoretical and methodological resources that are capable of mediating the ‘gaps’ identified in Althusserian Marxist criticism. The construction of the Marxist stylistic method is then effected through the transfer of germane theoretical and methodological resources from Critical Discourse Analysis to Althusserian Marxist criticism. The distinctive properties of the emergent Marxist-stylistic method are delineated before the method is practically applied to the interpretation of at least four fictional texts – all written and set in Zimbabwe. The key outcome of the thesis is that a distinctive method of text interpretation, which meaningfully separates itself from Althusserian Marxist criticism, on the one hand, and Critical Discourse Analysis, on the other, emerges. The thesis concludes with a reflection on the application of the method and makes some suggestions for further research and development in the area herein labelled as ‘Marxist stylistics.’
Jones, Mary C. „Fashioning Mobility: Navigating Space in Victorian Fiction“. UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/24.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleGarner-Mack, Naomi Jayne. „Eighteenth-century women writers and the tradition of epistolary complaint“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a4b7a20d-b36f-4657-929b-e5f375a49cd7.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleGantzert, Patricia L. „Throwing voices, dialogism in the novels of three contemporary Canadian women writers“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23313.pdf.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleChung, Wing-yu, und 鍾詠儒. „British women writers and the city in the early twentieth century“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2702409X.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleJohnston, Elizabeth. „Competing fictions eighteenth-century domestic novels, women writers, and the trope of female rivalry /“. Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4149.
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LeStage, Gregory. „Forces in the development of the British short story, 1930-1970 : some writers, editors, and periodicals“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670227.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleVasil, Christina Jane. „Ann-Marie MacDonald in the context of Hugh MacLennan and Alistair MacLeod, gender formation in three Cape Breton writers“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0026/MQ33830.pdf.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleSojka, Eugenia. „Search procedures, carnivalization in language- and theory-focused texts of four Canadian women writers“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25775.pdf.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleMeisel, Jacqueline Susan. „The deepest South : a comparative analysis of issues of exile in the work of selected women writers from South Africa and the American South“. Thesis, University of Cumbria, 2013. http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3991/.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleRogers, Ted. „Evil and Englishness representations of traumatic violence and national identity in the works of the Inklings, 1937-1954 /“. restricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08062007-153431/.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleTitle from file title page. Ian C. Fletcher, committee chair; Jared Poley, committee member. Electronic text (136 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136).
Richter, Yvonne Nicole. „A Critic in Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism Seriously“. Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/56.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleHarrison, Rebecca L. „Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters and the "Trick-Tongue" of Captivity“. unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232007-094815/.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThomas L. McHaney, committee chair; Audrey Goodman, Pearl A. McHaney, committee members. Electronic text (247 p.) : digital, PDF file. Title from file title page. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 27, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247).
Molloy, Carla Jane. „The art of popular fiction : gender, authorship and aesthetics in the writing of Ouida : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the University of Canterbury /“. Thesis, University of Canterbury. Culture, Literature and Society, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1956.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleWallace, Linda M. „Negotiating place, explorations of identity and nature in select novels by contemporary Canadian women writers“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/MQ49460.pdf.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleHuguley, Piper Gian. „Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers“. unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-174728/.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleTitle from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas L. McHaney, Elizabeth West, committee members. Electronic text (253 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May15, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (243-253).
Tait, Michelle Louise. „Navigating terragraphica : an exploration of the locations of identity construction in the transatlantic fiction of Ama Ata Aidoo, Paule Marshall and Caryl Phillips“. Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71769.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to navigate and explore diasporic identity, as reflected in and by transatlantic narrative spaces, this thesis looks to three very different novels birthed out of the Atlantic context (at different points of the Atlantic triangle and at different moments in history): Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977) by Ama Ata Aidoo, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) by Paule Marshall and Crossing the River (1993) by Caryl Phillips. Recognising the weight of location – cultural, geographic, temporal – on the literary construction of transatlantic identity, this thesis traces the way in which Aidoo, Marshall and Phillips use fictional texts as tools for grappling with ideas of home and belonging in a world of displacement, fracture and (ex)change. Uncovering the impact of roots, as well as routes (rupta via) on the realisation of identity for the diasporic subject, this study reveals and wrestles with various narrative portrayals of the diasporic condition (a profoundly human condition). Our Sister Killjoy presents identity as inherently imbricated with nationalism and pan-Africanism, whereas The Chosen Place presents identity as tidalectic, caught in the interstices between western and African subjectivities. In Crossing the River on the other hand, diasporic identification is constructed as transnational, fractal and perpetually in-process. This study argues that in the absence of an established sense of terra firma the respective authors actively construct home through narrative, resulting in what Erica L. Johnson has described as terragraphica. In this way, each novel is perceived and explored as a particular terragraphica as well as a fictional lieux de mémoire (to borrow Pierre Nora’s conception of “sites of memory”). Using the memories of transatlantic characters as (broken) windows through which to view history, as well as filters through which the present can be understood (or refracted), are techniques that Aidoo, Marshall and Phillips employ (although, Aidoo’s use of memory is less obvious). Tapping into various sites of memory in the lives of the fictional characters, the novels themselves become mediums of remembering, not as a means of storing facts about the past, but for the ambivalent purpose of understanding the impact of the past on the present.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In ’n poging om diasporiese identiteit te karteer en te ondersoek, betrek hierdie verhandeling drie uiteenlopende romans wat in die Atlantiese konteks, naamlik vanuit die verskillende hoeke van die Atlantiese driehoek en verskillende geskiedkundige Atlantiese momente, ontstaan het. Die drie romans sluit in: Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977) deur Ama Ata Aidoo, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) deur Paule Marshall en Crossing the River (1993) deur Caryl Phillips. Deur die belangrikheid van plek – kultureel, geografies en temporeel – in die literêre konstruksie van transatlantiese identiteit, te beklemtoon, spoor hierdie verhandeling die manier waarop Aidoo, Marshall en Phillips fiktiewe tekste aanwend na om sin te maak van idees oor tuiste en geborgenheid in ’n wêreld van verdringing, skeuring en (ver)wisseling. Deur die impak van die oorsprong op, asook die weg (rupta via) na, die verwesenliking van identiteit vir die diasporiese subjek te toon, onthul en worstel hierdie tesis met verskeie narratiewe uitbeeldings van die diasporiese toestand (’n toestand eie aan die mens). Our Sister Killjoy stel identiteit as inherent vermeng met nasionalisme en pan-Afrikanisme voor, terwyl The Chosen Place identiteit as tidalekties uitbeeld – vasgevang tussen westerse en Afrika-subjektiwiteite. In Crossing the River word diasporiese identifisering egter gekonstrueer as transnasionaal, fraktaal en ewigdurend in ’n proses van ontwikkeling. Hierdie studie voer verder aan dat die onderskeie skrywers tuiste aktief deur narratief konstrueer in die afwesigheid van ’n gevestigde bewustheid van terra firma, of onbekende land of plek. Die gevolg is ’n voortvloeiing van wat deur Erica L. Johnson beskryf word as terragraphica. Vervolgens word elk van die romans gesien en verken as ’n spesifieke terragraphica asook ’n fiktiewe lieux de mémoire, gegrond in Pierre Nora se konsep “sites of memory”. Die benutting van transatlantiese karakters se herhinneringe as (gebreekte) vensters waardeur die geskiedenis bespeur kan word en filters waardeur die hede verstaan (of gerefrakteer) kan word, is die tegnieke wat Aidoo, Marshall en Phillips aanwend – alhoewel Aidoo se gebruik van geheue minder ooglopend is. Deur verskeie terreine van geheue in die lewens van die fiktiewe karakters te betrek, ontwikkel die romans tot mediums van onthou, nie in die sin van feite van die verlede wat gestoor word nie, maar met die dubbelsinnige doel om die impak van die verlede op die hede te verstaan.
Davies, Ben. „Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers“. Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleBergheaud, Lise. „Raymond Queneau, une formation au modernisme et à la modernité : 1917-1938, lectures fondatrices du récit anglo-saxon des XIXe-XXe siècles“. Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030075.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThis study aims at clarifying the connections between Raymond QUENEAU’s prose works and the narratives from the English-speaking world which he read and listed from 1917 to 1938. On the basis of a rational perusal of QUENEAU’s reading lists, we first delineated a group of ten writers who announce or epitomize literary modernity and whose writings reveal a concurrence, both precocious and lasting, with the French writer’s own texts (Edgar Allan POE, Lewis CARROLL, Joseph CONRAD, Henry JAMES, James JOYCE, William FAULKNER, Gertrude STEIN, Ernest HEMINGWAY, Henry MILLER, Erskine CALDWELL). This empirical foundation having been firmly established, we were then able to go beyond the links which have been widely discussed in current criticism and to identify less detectable and sometimes underrated relations. Within that framework we investigated several issues : how does QUENEAU express his literary originality against the background of modern poetics where the basic features of classical fiction are thoroughly undermined because of the doubt cast upon the validity of meaningful representation? Once seen in the company of his favourite English-speaking authors, how does Queneau use the art of writing to outline an ontology of anxiety when facing the possible annihilation of both mundane reality and beings?
Pasi, Juliet Sylvia. „Theorising the environment in fiction: exploring ecocriticism and ecofeminism in selected black female writers’ works“. Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23789.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThis 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)
Muganiwa, Josephine. „Shifting identities: representations of Shona women in selected Zimbabwean fiction“. Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26875.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThis thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The study traces meanings associated with Shona women’s identities as ascribed by dominant powers in every epoch to create narratives that reflect the power dynamics. The thesis argues that identities are complex, characterized by various intersections such as race, gender, class and ethnicity. Shona women have to negotiate their identities in various circumstances resulting in shifting multiple identities. The thesis focuses on how such identities are represented in the selected texts. Findings reveal that the colonial project sought to write the Shona women out of existence, and when they appeared negative images of dirt, slothfulness and immorality were ascribed to them. These images continued after independence to justify male dominance of women. However, the lived experience of women shows they have agency and tend to shift identities in relation to specific circumstances. Shona women’s identities are dynamic and multifarious as they aim at relevance in their socioeconomic and political circumstances. Representations of Shona women’s identities are therefore influenced by the aim of the one representing them. All representations are therefore arbitrary and must be interrogated in order to deconstruct meaning and understand the power dynamics at play. The works analysed are Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950), Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993), Cythia Marangwanda’s Shards (2014), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Violet Masilo’s The African Tea Cosy (2010), Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006), Dangarembgwa’s The Book of Not (2006), Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009).
English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
Parnell, Jo. „Creative empathy: how writers turn experience not their own into literary non-fiction“. Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1039417.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThe creative component to this thesis is a form of life writing which straddles both memoir and literary documentary. The writer-researcher interviews the subject for her or his unusual life-experience, and audio-tapes the discussion as resource material for a creative nonfiction docu-memoir. In a work of this type, the memoir is primarily not that of the writer, but that of the subject. The documentary component can take the form of photographs, and also factual elements which the subject mentions in relation to their experience, and which gives a documentary-type effect to their narrative. My docu-memoir records the stories of seven subjects, five of whom are Forgotten Australians, of whom I am one. These people are of mainly Anglo-Celtic heritage, and were in care as children in Australia in the mid-part of the twentieth century. Two of the subjects are not Forgotten Australians, but one tells what it is like to be the long-lost sibling of a Forgotten Australian, and the other tells what it was like to have been a child in an orphanage in England so that, in my work, I can show that Australian orphanages were not greatly different to those in England, and the experience of being an incarcerated child was much the same regardless of geographical distance. The inclusion of all these people’s stories is intended to give a concise picture of the experience of being a Forgotten Australian: what it is like to be a “forgotten” and abused child, what it means as an adult to be a care-leaver, how their experiences have affected their lives and those of others around them, and how the experience and the effects of that are much the same no matter whether they were in care as children in England or in Australia. This is a story which has not been previously told from inside the group, in a literary work. In the exegesis, I study what docu-memoir is, and how to write a creative nonfiction work and tailor it to my topic. As models for my own docu-memoir I chose the works of Tony Parker, and especially *Lighthouse*, Sheila Stewart’s three docu-memoirs, *Country Kate*, *Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land*, and *Ramlin Rose: The Boatwoman’s Story*, and Helen Garner’s *Joe Cinque’s Consolation*. From Parker and Stewart I learnt how to structure a docu-memoir of the type in which I am most interested, and various techniques that I could use when recreating the memories of others: such as, how to make the subjects in the work appear as real people, how to dwell on the metaphorical and philosophical in the words of people, and use the transcript material in a way that lets the subjects talk for themselves. From Garner I learnt how one might include oneself in the work as a point of reference for added credibility, and ways in which to enhance my work of nonfiction with creative elements like braiding the narratives with stories suggested by the subject matter, but which take the reader outside the interview situation, and use rhetoric to draw the reader into the literary landscape. From these writers I also learnt ways in which to maintain a code of ethics for a nonfiction writer when crafting a creative work of docu-memoir.
Saneliso, Thambo. „Mobilities, Migration and Identities in Selected Zimbabwean Fictional Narratives“. Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1156.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleDepartment of English
This study examines the representation of the Zimbabwean migrant experiences in both regional and international migrations. It utilizes narratives that highlight the experiences of the Zimbabweans who migrate thereby exploring issues of mobility and identity. These narratives are Harare North (2010), An Elegy for Easterly (2010), Zebra Crossing (2013), We Need New Names (2014) and The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician (2014). These narratives have been utilized in the study to argue that migrants encounter traumatic experiences as they cross either the regional or international spaces they move to in search of better economic prospects. It further explores the kinds of trauma that they are subjected to, ranging from racism, the threat and reality of xenophobic attacks, the intricacy of negotiating an existence and a livelihood in these new spaces, searching for employment, to mention a few. The study argues that the migration experience has a catastrophic effect on the migrants’ psychological state, represented as partially being caused by the realization that the host country presents its own set of challenges and is also hostile, a different reality from the preconceived romanticized view of the countries they migrate to. The study argues that the selected novels foreground the inhospitable nature of the Zimbabwean post-2000 political instabilities and the socio-economic meltdown as fostering the forced trans-migrations of Zimbabweans in an effort to escape poverty and political challenges.
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Mbatha, P. „A feminist analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions (1988)“. Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/477.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleFranceschi, Valeria. „ELF Users as Creative Writers: Plurilingual Practices in Fan Fiction“. Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/692564.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleGlobalization processes and the increase of transnational practices in contemporary society have promoted international dialogue in a variety of fields and settings. Such interactions occur in a shared common language, most often English. The English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective may be applied to all communicative contexts where English acts as the working language of international interactions in both physical and digital environments. International, interest-based groups on the Internet are a common context of use for ELF. Aficionados of pop culture texts - fans - are very active members of such virtual communities, engaging in social and creative practices with like-minded people via ELF. Creative writing inspired by these pop culture texts – fan fiction - is especially popular, and fans publish their work online, positioning themselves as successful writers within their communities. While employing ELF as the primary language of their texts, fan writers bring their sociocultural and linguistic repertoires to their stories, interspersing narration and dialogue with non-English language elements. These were analyzed in order to determine which functions they play within the texts. The notions of linguistic heteroglossia and super-diversity are adopted in relation to the qualitative analysis of plurilingual resource exploitation in a fan fiction corpus constituted of online-published stories - inspired by Japanese comics and animation, known as manga and anime - written by 26 non-native users of English. A preliminary analysis of the paratext and of reader reviews highlights the supportive and participatory attitude of the readers in relation to non-native writers, and how plurilingual resources are employed to foster social cohesion between writers and readers, who show affiliation or solidarity to specific linguacultures as well as mark themselves as members of the manga/anime community. The insertion of Japanese elements in the text is particularly frequent and significant in the story texts as well, where it acts as an authenticity device in both dialogues and narrative segments. In addition, Japanese and other languages fulfill a number of functions in the fan fiction analyzed: social, pragmatic, and narrative. Plurilingual resources appear then to be employed deliberately and to specific purposes in these creative texts. Analysis of other aspects of ELF use in fandom may help shed light on ELF in CMC contexts.
Manase, Irikidzayi. „The mapping of urban spaces and identities in current Zimbabwean and South African fiction“. Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3428.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.
Farca, Paula Anca. „Roots to routes contemporary indigenous fiction by women writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand /“. 2009. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/Farca_okstate_0664D_10631.pdf.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleNaidoo, Salachi. „Gender violence and resistance : representation of women's agency in selected literary works by Zimbabwean female writers“. Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22609.
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D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
Janzen, Beth E. „The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers“. Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1805.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleFourie, Fiona Hilary. „Responses to imperialism of four women writers at the Cape Eastern frontier in the nineteenth century“. Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/9953.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleRickard, Suzanne. „On the shelf : women writers, publishing and philanthropy in mid-nineteenth-century England“. Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139147.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleMukiwa, Faresi Rumbidzai. „Women and utterance in contexts of violence : Nehanda, Without a name and The strange virgins by Yvonne Vera“. Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1632.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleThesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.
Mangwanda, Khombe M. „The Zimbabwean nation as cultural construct in the works of John Eppel, Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne Vera“. Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27635.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleChigwedere, Yuleth. „Head of darkness : representations of "madness" in postcolonial Zimbabwean literature“. Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20981.
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D.Litt. et Phil. (English)
Chigidi, Willie L. „A study of Shona war fiction : the writer's perspectives“. Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3118.
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D.Litt. et Phil.
Mbwera, Shereck. „Short stories for life : implications of the Canonisation of the Zimbabwe story-telling tradition, with special reference to selected Zimbabwean short stories“. Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22592.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleAfrican Languages
D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
Mitras, Joao Luis. „Postmodern or post-Catholic? : a study of British Catholic writers and their fictions in a postmodern and postconciliar world“. Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18636.
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M.A. (English)
Sisimayi, Weston. „The representation of marginalized voices and trauma in selected novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera“. Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25133.
Der volle Inhalt der QuelleMy thesis focuses on the representation of marginalized voices and trauma in the selected fiction of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera. I analyze three novels written by the Yvonne Vera—Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue(1996) and The Stone Virgins(2002) set during the Zimbabwe liberation struggle period and postcolonial Zimbabwe dissident era respectively and Nervous Conditions(1988) and its sequel, The Book of Not (1996), by Dangarembga set during the 1960s to 1970s colonial Rhodesia period (the colonial name for Zimbabwe) and during the period of white‐minority rule in Rhodesia to the attainment of independence in 1980. I analyze these novels from the feminist/womanist, gender and postcolonial literary models. The rational for grouping these theoretical models in the analysis in this thesis is that they commonly highlight from a gender perspective the complex factors which oppress and marginalize women in the colonial and postcolonial contexts in which the two authors set their writings. These literary paradigms highlight the oppression of women from an African perspective and all acknowledge the need to address all factors which oppress and subordinate women (gender, race, class) if total emancipation for them is to be achieved. I also posit that Vera and Dangarembga offer discourses that challenge the silencing of narratives of oppression and violation in their novels selected for analysis in this thesis. The thesis has five chapters. In Chapter 1, I set out the argument of the thesis and give a brief history of gendered colonialism and the historical period which provides a setting for the fiction of the two authors. Next, I describe the conceptual framework I will use in analyzing the works of the two postcolonial Zimbabwe female writers. Then I will outline the research questions and hypothesis and expose the research methodology and approach that will serve as my vehicle for data collection, analysis and interpretation. In Chapter 2, I will focus on gender, class and race and discuss the ways Dangarembga explores these factors in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not. I will also discuss innovate ways women explore to champion their freedom and voice in the fiction of Dangarembga. Chapter 3 focuses on the novels of Yvonne Vera— Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The stone Virgins —which articulate narratives of violated subjects and silenced voices. I will discuss the ways Vera explores to show how narratives of violated subjects are silenced by patriarchy, colonialism and masculine narratives of nationalism in these novels. Chapter 4 focuses on narratives of trauma. Using theories of trauma, I will analyze Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The Stone Virgins by Vera and show how these narratives articulate colonial and postcolonial trauma and female child trauma. I will also discuss The Book of Not by Dangarembga and show how the novel articulates colonial and racial trauma. My discussion of the novels of Vera and Dangarembga in this chapter will show that these novels work out traumatic experiences in the colonial and postcolonial eras and will also reveal the challenges of representing tra
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M.A. (English)
Moyo, Thamsanqa. „The unsettling of colonialist and nationalist spaces : John Eppel's writings on Zimbabwe“. Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25320.
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D. Litt. et Phil.(English)