4,217 research outputs found
Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-171).In 1843, William Sammons founded the peculiarly named Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843 -1851) in Cape Town. Claiming to be a ‘register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement’, the African Journal was a hybrid newspaper and literary and satirical periodical aimed at an Anglophone immigrant readership in the period between the abolition of slavery and the granting of representative government to the Cape Colony
Barriers to access to mental health care services in the Cape Metropole, faced by refugee and asylum seeker women who have been exposed to trauma
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.Through use of a phenomenological design, this qualitative study investigated barriers to accessing mental health care by female refugees living in the Cape Metropole who have mental health problems as a result of exposure to trauma. A high number of female refugees in the Cape Metropole have been exposed to trauma. This study aims to contribute to the limited literature on this topic. The objectives of the study were to identify whether female refugees faced barriers to accessing mental health services in the Cape and if they did, the nature of these barriers. The findings identified that at the service-delivery level, language, under-resourced mental health services, documentation barriers and lack of awareness of refugees' rights were the biggest barriers. The main barriers in the refugee communities were cultural and religious, fear and lack of awareness and work and childcare responsibilities. The study highlights that not only is the South African government obliged under international, regional and national laws to fulfil female refugees' right to access mental health services, but it is in the state's best interests to do so
The role of land reform and rural development in sustaining small-scale agriculture : a case study of the Comprehensive Rural Development Program (CRDP) in Dysselsdorp, Western Cape
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This short dissertation aims to contribute to the academic discussion centered on land reform and rural development efforts to date and their effectiveness in supporting livelihoods rooted in small-scale agriculture for those living in a former Group Area. Research was conducted in February/March 2013 in the Karoo community of Dysselsdorp in the Western Cape. Dysselsdorp was identified as a pilot location for Comprehensive Rural Development, a relatively recent program by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform blending rural development and land reform efforts for the first time. This study used a combination of quantitative survey and questionnaire data with extensive qualitative data in the form of farmer focus groups and key informant interviews. Results gathered from this demonstrated conflicting views about the capacity of the Comprehensive Rural Development Program to support livelihoods based on small-scale agriculture. Coupling discussions with community members and government officials with literature written on rural development in southern Africa revealed that stakeholder involvement within the CRDP structure is both a bane and a benefit to the progress of economic development in the community
Writers Researching: Fact and Fiction
No full textWhat is the relationship between research and the writing process and
between historical ‘truth’ and fictional ‘truth’? Are there boundaries
which should not be crossed? In this course writers will talk about the
research that resulted in their recent novels. Ron Irwin, author of Flat
Water Tuesday, will discuss how he researched people, places and real
events and the challenges associated with turning the events of one’s
own life into a novel. Helen Moffett, one of the trio behind the Girl Walk
In series, will explain how she and her co-authors research and write
erotica novels, providing insight into collaboration, champagne and
condoms. Award-winning Lauren Beukes will describe how she ‘kinks’
reality in relation to the real-world research that informed The Shining
Girls and Zoo City. Angela Makholwa will explore the process of writing
the criminal mind, including interviews with a serial killer for Red Ink,
and research about women who killed their husbands for Black Widow
Society. Readers always assume that everything that happened in your
book happened to you, complains Finuala Dowling, so what’s the point
of trudging uphill for five hours in search of one sentence? Referring to
both Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart and her latest manuscript,
The Fetch, she discusses the price of authenticity
Professor Angela Shannon
No full textAngela Shannon shares her poetry with the Taylor community.
Angela Shannon is the author of Singing the Bones Together, a 2004 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. She teaches English at Bethel University. Her work has been published in journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Where One Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Her choreopoem Root Woman premiered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater in Evanston, Ill
Violence and society in post-apartheid Cape Town
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-182).High levels of crime and violence continue to plague South Africa after nearly two decades of peace and democratic rule. While collective violence continues to occur in the form of violent protests and community mob justice, the majority of violent incidents in South Africa are instances of individual, interpersonal violence
Angela Shanté : 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Angela Shanté gives an acceptance speech for When My Cousins Come to Town, illustrated by Keisha Morris (West Margin Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1004/thumbnail.jp
Climate and Bioinvasives drivers of change on South African Rocky shores?
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.The overall aims of the thesis were to assess spatio-temporal change in macro species assemblages at sites located around the South African coast. Detected changes were considered in parallel with regional patterns of bioinvasion and climate change driven shifts in temperature trends over comparable time scales
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
Emerging HIV communities and self : the representation of self and community in South African HIV/AIDS literature
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75).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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