English and Literary Studies Research Papers/Topics

Inter-Dialect Maintenance And Shift In The Contact Of Lubukusu And Lutachoni

ABSTRACT  Despite efforts by the UNESCO and CIPL in devoting attention to language endangerment and introducing the ‘Red Books’ that monitor the status of threatened languages, other nongovernmental organizations like the US based Terralingua focused on promoting linguistic diversity through biodiversity, CEL for identifying endangered languages in Kenya, the Kenyan government through MoE in promoting the use of L1s at lower primary and linguists like Joshua Fishman coming up with langua...

‘Pentecostal’ Language And Conflict Resolution In Africa

ABSTRACT The paper observes the use of pentecostal language as a positive trend in the resolution of conflicts within the African family setting. It specifically notes the element of negativity embedded in verbal violence and its attendant psychological effects that is contained in interpersonal relationships within the family setting. It further notes the increasing disappearance of such negativity in the light of Pentecostal influence on the lifestyle of the people. A major point of concent...

ABUSE OF POWER AND RESISTANCE IN SELECTED POST-COLONIAL SUB-SAHARA AFRICAN NOVELS

ABSTRACT Abuse of power, an excessive use of authority in governance or homes; and resistance, the attempt to confront such abuses, have occupied a prominent position in sociopolitical discourses in African literature. Existing studies on sub-Sahara African novels written from the late 1980s have focused on thematic concerns such as gender issues, disillusionments and exploitation, without giving adequate attention to the issue of abuse of power and resistance. This study, therefore, examine...

MYTH AND MYTHOGRAPHY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DRAMA

ABSTRACT Most previous studies regarded myths as a plethora of concocted stories: they paid little attention to dramatic myth and mythography as productive and effective in African way of life. Modernism, sequestered from the past, created directionless and questioning societies. Solutions, pre-encoded in mythologies and transmitted through generations, were jettisoned. This study, therefore, situates dramatic mythic tendencies, depictions and effects in present African way of lives with a v...

African Writing In English In Southern Africa

ABSTRACT I would like to express my thanks to Prof. R. G. Howarth for his encouraging and patient supervision of my work over many year.s. !t .is largely due to his pioneering and inspiring interest in South African literature that I was able to complete my work in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties.. My thanks also go to Prof. E. Westphal for his supervision and help. I am indebted to Mrs. P .E. Stevens, librarian in charge of the Special Collection section of Jagger Library, and...

An Analysis Of The Literary Representation Of The Causes And Effects Of Family Disintegration In Memory Chirere’s Selected Short Stories From The Anthrology Somewhere In This Country

ABSTRACT The thesis explores the literary representation of the causes and effects of family disintegration in Memory Chirere’s selected short stories namely “Keresenzia”, “Beautiful children”, “An Old Man, Eyes of a Buck”, “Plastic and Cardboards” and “When Passions Gather” from the anthology Somewhere in this country. The literary presentation of the causes and effects of family disintegration is an area which has not been thoroughly explored by African writers. The si...

A Stylistics Analysis Of Healthcare Communication Discourses On Billboards And Posters In Windhoek

ABSTRACT This thesis was a stylistics analysis of healthcare communication discourses on billboards and posters in Windhoek. The main aim of the study was to examine how the language used in healthcare communication messages on posters and billboards, is packaged to persuade readers/consumers to adopt good health practices. The study also concentrated on how the AIDA (attention, interest, desire and action) principle of advertisement and foregrounding features used in healthcare communication...

Crossing The Boundary: Transnationality And Interracial Marriage Encounters In Jane Katjavivi’s Undisciplined Heart And Trudie Amulungu’s Taming My Elephant

ABSTRACT The main focus of the study was to explore the literary presentation of transnational identities and interracial marriage encounters as presented by two Namibian autobiographical texts, Taming my Elephant by Amulungu (2017) and Undisciplined Heart by Katjavivi (2010). It evaluated the strategies employed by the authors to explore the sense of ‘belonging’ as well as the joys and challenges experienced in interracial marriages. Guided and informed by the autobiography theory and th...

Loss Of Identity And Racial Melancholy In Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter And Zakes Mda’s The Madonna Of Excelsior

ABSTRACT Loss of identity and racial melancholy are essential in a postcolonial Namibia; the feeling of not belonging is brought to the fore in this study. This thesis is an exploration of racial melancholy and loss of identity in Zakes Mda’s, The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979). The main aim of the research is to examine, discuss and explore how the two concepts are presented in the two novels under investigation. The study is a desktop study,...

A Critical Analysis Of Deictic Referencing: A Case Study Of Selected Editorials In The Namibian Newspaper

ABSTRACT The focus of this study was to analyse deictic referencing in editorials, and particularly, the way in which the editor employed five types of deixis in 30 selected editorials published between June 2016 and June 2017 in The Namibian newspaper. Additionally, the study pursued to identify the predominant deictic referencing and its contribution to cohesion and coherence in the text. This was a qualitative, desktop research in which the process of data analysis involved organising the ...

Authoring The Unspeakables, Moralising The Public Sphere: A Literary Examination Of Social Commitment And The Artistic Vision In Sifiso Nyathi’s Oeuvre

ABSTRACT This thesis critically analysed how Sifiso Nyathi, through his oeuvre commits to moralise the public sphere, by authoring the commonly unsaid and veiled societal matters. The oeuvre is comprised of five texts, three plays; God of women, The oracle of Cidino, and Tears of fears in the era of terror, a novel; The other presence, and an anthropology of poems; Ballads of insomnia. Each text of the oeuvre deals with a kind of overarching silence in society. The main purpose of the study w...

Examining The (In)Significance Of The African Boychild As An Unheard Voice In Feminist Critical Discources: A Literary Exploration Of Ba, Dangarembga And Andreas` Selected Works

ABSTRACT This thesis examined how literature presents the (in)significance of the African boy child as an unheard voice in the selected feminist critical discourses of three literary works - Mariama Ba’s (1979) So Long a Letter, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s (1989) Nervous Conditions and Neshani Andreas’s The Purple Violet of Oshantuu (2001). The presentation of the boy child in African feminist writing is an area which has not been given much attention in gender writing. The thrust in this rese...

A Study Of Rhetorical Devices Used In Selected Car Advertisements In The Namibian Newspaper

ABSTRACT The language of car advertising is viewed as unique and completely different from everyday language. The rhetorical elements and unusual linguistic arrangement of words make the language of car advertisement special and unique. This study seeks to examine the rhetorical devices in selected car advertisements, to examine the language used in car advertisements, and to explore rhetorical structure and strategies in selected car advertisements. This is a desk study, whose research was d...

Reconstruction Of Atrocities Through Fiction In Namibia: An Evaluation Of Mari Serebrov‘S Mama Namibia And Lauri Kubuitsile‘S The Scattering

Abstract The study explored how fiction represents atrocities and the resilient tactics devised by people who experienced trauma during the 20th century Herero Genocide as presented in the two selected Namibian novels in English. The purpose of the study was to explore how traumatic avenues are chronicled in fiction through the two selected novels and to investigate how fiction portrays trauma and resilience in a Namibian context. The study further examined the coping and resilient strategies...

A Poststructural Feminist Examination Of Widowhood In So Long A Letter By Mariama Ba And The Only Son By John Munoye

Abstract This thesis provides a poststructural feminist examination of widowhood in the novels So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba and The Only Son by John Munonye. The selected two novels were chosen because of the recurring themes on widowhood within them. The major objectives of the study were to examine issues surrounding death that directly affect widows as portrayed in the two novels, So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba and The Only Son by John Munonye; analyse how the two authors present widowho...


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