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Her heart lies at the feet of the mother: Transformations of the romance plot in Leila Aboulela’s minaret
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the
plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops
further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. ...
Youth, faith, climate change and environmental consciousness: A case for sustainable development
(AOSIS, 2021)
Climate change and environmental destruction are amongst the most threatening challenges to
humanity and sustainable development globally. Young people find themselves right in the
centre of debates about ecological ...
Young people – citizens in times of climate change? A childist approach to human responsibility
(AOSIS, 2021)
The matters of climate change are presently of concern existentially and ethically to the children
and the youth. Worldwide school strikes in 2018–2019 and the Fridays for Future movement
demonstrate how the young citizens ...
BECOMING-MINORITARIAN Constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The institutional history of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in some ways mirrors the paradoxes, ambiguities, absurdities, contradictions and possibilities – in short, the complexities – of the concept “coloured”. ...
In the heart of the country: The auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Fatima Meer
(University of Cape Town, 2020)
South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated
genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the
personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of
relatively coherent, autonomous ...
Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)
A comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching
God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share ...
Voicing sentiments of resilience: A corpus approach to 1980s conscious rappers in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2021)
The study of people’s response to adversity acquires substantially different connotations in
the South African context because of the heavy legacy of apartheid. This article explores the
construction of the notion of ...
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
(UNISA Press, 2021)
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be
considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics ...
Comprehensive food system planning for urban food security in Nanjing, China
(MPDI, 2021)
Food system planning is important to achieve the goal of “zero hunger” in the UN’s
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2016). However, discussion about comprehensive
planning for food security is scarce and ...
Language ideology, policy and classroom practices in Oshiwambo speaking areas, Northern Namibia
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The study problematized language ideologies and policy to explore the efficacy of using English as the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) among Oshiwambo speaking learners in the Omusati region of Northern ...