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Personal Details:
Name: André Johan van Wyk
Nationality: South African
Marital Status: Married, but separated with three children
Birth Date: 20 November 1956
Telephone: (051) 5220047

 

Addresses:

 

For correspondence
22 McArthur Street
Fichardtpark
Bloemfontein
9301
 

But living at:

27 Oxford House

77 Gillespie Street

Durban

4001

 

or at:

60 Hampstead Rd

Claremont

7700

Academic History:
  • 29 June 1982 : BA University of the Witwatersrand (Afrikaans and History of Art)
  • 28 May 1983 : BA Hons University of the Witwatersrand (Afrikaans)
  • 11 April 1987 : PhD University of Rhodes for thesis Die dood, die minnaar en die Oedipale struktuur in die Ingrid Jonker-teks.
Employment History:
  • January1984: Junior Lecturer at the University of Durban-Westville
  • February 1989: Lecturer at the University of Durban-Westville
  • September 1990: Senior Lecturer at the University of Durban-Westville
  • 1994: Associate Professor
  • January 1994: Co-ordinator of the Centre for the Study of Southern African literature and languages.
  • January 2000: Full Professor
  • January 2001: Acting-Director School of Languages
  • 2002: Hospitalised after a stroke
  • November 2002: Hospitalised after being attacked in flat
  • 2003 Medically boarded
Other Employment-Related Activities:
  • 1989: Member of the Combined Staff Association Academic Sub-Committee
  • 1991: Chairperson of the Combined Staff Association Academic Sub-Committee
  • 1994-1995: Exco-Member of the Board of the Faculty of Arts
  • 1994: Library Committee for Arts Faculty
  • 1994: Initiated the publication of the journal Alternation
  • 1995: University Research Committee representative for the Arts Faculty
  • 1995: Faculty of Arts Research Committee, initiated the idea of a Research Fair for the Arts Faculty
  • 1995: NCHE Committee for the Arts Faculty
  • 1995: Research Development Plan for the University
  • 1998: Initiated the salit newsgroup
  • 1999: CSD Screening committee Arts Faculty
  • 1998: Certificate: Performance Leadership Programme, MJT Consulting
  • 1999: Research Audit Committee
  • 1999: South African Literature and Culture Program Design
  •  the University Mission Statement, a new constitution for the Faculty of Arts and the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literatures and Languages.
  • founding member of the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages at the University of Durban-Westville, and also a founding member of the journal Alternation.
External Examiner to the Following Institutions:
  • 1989/1990: University of Zululand
  • 1992: University of the Western Cape: S. van Wyk: MA Thesis "Die dialektiek van genre met verwysing na Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (Elsa Joubert)"
  • 1993-1999: University of the Western Cape: M.A.552 + 553
  • 1993: University of Natal: Mrs. C. J. Hassan: Master of Arts (Coursework) Thesis
  • 1994: Springfield College of Education: Afrikaans Letterkunde (M+4 - 1 Year)
  • 1994: University of Durban-Westville Education Faculty: Afrikaans Usage
  • 1995: Ph.D. Thesis, Hein Willemse, University of the Western Cape
  • 1996: Ph.D. Thesis, Jaco Alant, University of Natal
  • 1996: Coursework MA, dissertation, Sanjiv Somers "The Propagation and Preservation of Orally Transmitted Omens and Beliefs and the Extent to which They Influence Behaviour Among South African Indians"
  • 1998: Ph.D. thesis, Christelle Stander, University of the Western Cape
  • 1999: University of Durban-Westville, Department of English, MA Dissertation: Lorelle Francesca Royeppen: "A Feminist Reading of the Narrative Fiction of Ama Ata Aidoo and Flora Nwapa.
  • 1999: Coursework MA in South African Literature, University of Port Elizabeth
  • 1999: Honours in South African Literature – Identity and Literature -, as well as the drama paper, University of Port Elizabeth
  • 1999: Examination of MA in Creative Writing, University of Cape Town, candidate T Dreyer for dissertation Stinkafrikaners
Fellow:
  • Essen University, 1-30 October 1999. 
  • Essen University, 1 Sept-1 October 2001. Work on shared electronic project.
Acted as Judge in Following Literary Awards:
  • 1992 Rapport Literary Award
  • 1994 ATKV Prize for Afrikaans Prose
Acted as Referee:
  • 1993 for article "The Trickster and the Prison House; The Bakhtinian Dimension of ‘The Carnivalesque’ in Breyten Breytenbach’s True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist" submitted to Literator.
  • 1995 "Literature and Testimony in Gramsci's Letters from Prison: The Question of Subjectivity" by Massimo Lollini" Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
  • Regularly act as referee to conference applications to CSD
Member of the Following Associations:
  • ALA (African Literature Association)
  • ALV (Afrikaanse Letterkkunde-Vereniging)
  • SAVAL (South African Society for General Literary Studies)
  • The Southern African Folklore Society
  • The Van Riebeeck Society
  • Friends of the South African Library
  • ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association)
  • FILLM (International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures)
Grants:
  • 2000 NRF internship grant of R50000 each for two students Ayub Sheik and JC Naicker
  • 2000-2002 UDW research committee grant for Life History Project: ZP Khuzwayo and ZC Mdakane (amount R13000)
  • 2001 NRF IRDP Grant (Social Sciences and Humanities: Centre for the Study of SA literature and Languages) (amount R141 000)
  • 2001 NRF Distinct SA Research Opportunities: SA Literary Heritage Project (amount R300000)
  • 2001 NRF Research Grant for Research Fellow: prof E Reckwitz 1 July-15 July 2001
  • 2002 NRF Research Grant for Research Fellow:: prof. Z. Bialas    15 April-15 May
Workshops attended:
  • Workshop on Research Management in Higher Education, The National Research Foundation: Pretoria 23 Sept 1999
Papers Presented at Local Conferences:
  • "Class, Race and Sex in Afrikaner Nationalist Plays," History Workshop Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, 5-8 Feb. 1990.
  • "Die tematiek van die werker binne die Afrikaanse werkers- en nasionalistiese literatuur: Die nut van ou Afrikaanse tekste vir ’n nuwe Suid-Afrika," Afrikaanse Letterkunde Vereniging Vierde Hoofkongres, 6-8 Sept. 1990.
  • "Marxism and Semiology," Conference: Marxism in South Africa - Past, Present, Future, University of the Western Cape, 6-8 Sept.1991.
  • "The Terror of Reason: Stereotypes and the Discourse on Stereotypes" Saval Mini-Conference, University of Natal, 20-22 April, 1995.
  • "Die antropologiese diskoers en die Afrikaanse letterkunde" Afrikaanse Letterkundeverening Sewende Hoofkongres, Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, 18-20 September 1996.
  • Participant on Panel on "Literary History in South Africa", Conference "Literary Studies at the Crossroads" UNISA, 20 -21 February 1997.
  • "The Interplay of the Heroic and the Colonial. The Emergence of a Pan Africanist Consciousness". South African Folklore Society Conference. Vista Conference Centre. Port Elizabeth. 16 May 1997.
  • "’n Nuwe Afrikaanse Universiteit: Die Universiteit van die Toekoms," Konferensie oor die universiteit in die 21 ste eeu aangebied deur die Departement Filosofie, Universiteit van Pretoria, in samewerking met Fragmente: Tydskrif vir Filosofie en Kultuurkritiek, (12 Nov.-14 Nov. 1999.
Papers Presented at International Conferences:
  • "Afrikaans Poetry, Redefinition - Workshop Session," Afrikaans: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution 7 th Conference on South African Literature, Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, 25-27 Sept. 1992.
  • "Defining Poetry from a South African Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Oral, Written, Printed and Pictographic Forms of South African Poetry," FILLM XIX International Congress, University of Brasília, Brazil, 22-30 Aug. 1993. I was also chairperson to Session 7, 24 Aug. of this Conference.
  • "South African Literature and the Construction of Identity" ICLA XIVth Congress, University of Alberta, 15-20 August, 1994, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • "Pedagogics of Reconstruction: Teaching Literature in a 'New' South Africa", 9th Conference on South African Literature, 14-16 October 1994, Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll
  • "Construction of the Difaqane in South African Literature" African Literature Association Conference, Stony Brook, 27-31 March 1996.
  • "Hordes, Institutions and Intertexts: Conceptualising South African Literary History",South African Literary History: Totality and/or Fragment, Essen University, Germany, 4-7 July 1996.
  • "Cultural forgetting: Comparative analysis of working class South African literature 1910-1924" ICLA Xvth Congress, Leiden University, 16-22 August 1997, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • "Literary Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The CSSALL and possibilities for other Commonwealth and Postcolonial Societies" CACLALS "Commonwealth in Canada"- Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, 7-9 November 1997.
  • Survey of South African Literary History with reference to the CSSALL electronic database/encyclopedia and CD Rom project," Constructing South African Literary History, Essen, 5-8 October 1998.
  • "A Custom He Could Not Sanction": The Texts by Ivory Traders Fynn and Isaacs in the Shaka Period," Ebony, Ivory, & Tea. First Joint Symposium of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Centre (University of Silesia, Poland) & Southern African Studies Centre (University of Essen, Germany), Cracow, 28 September-2 October 2000.
  • "Myth, History, Folklore and Cannibalism in Texts from South Africa", Spoiling Cannibals' Fun? Cannibalism and Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere, University of Silesia, Ustron, Poland, 21-22 September 2001.
Invited to attend the historic ANC and SA writers’ meeting at the Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 8-12 July 1989.
 
Conferences Organized:
  • "Re-thinking South African Literary History" ,CSSALL, University of Durban-Westville, 5-7 May 1995
  • "The Dancing Dwarf from the Land of the Spirits" Interdisciplinary Conference on Southern African Literature and Languages, CSSALL, University of Durban-Westville, 13-16 September 1995
  • "Body, Identity, Sub-Cultures and Repression in Texts from Africa, Second CSSALL Interdisciplinary Conference, CSSALL, University of Durban-Westville, 25-27 September, 1997.
  • "Teaching South African Literature at Tertiary and Secondary Levels, South African Literature and Evil, and Towards a South African Literary Theory". Third CSSALL Conference, CSSALL, University of Durban-Westville, 6 to 7 July 2001.
Community Orientated Seminars:
  • 1987: "Aliënasie in die Afrikaanse poësie," UNIQWA, 5 Sept.
  • 1990: "Language, Literature & Identity: Aspects of Literary Research in Afrikaans" College Lecture, 7 June, University of Durban-Westville.
  • 1993: "Redefining Poetry: The South African Material," Paper presented to the Southern African Literature Discussion Group, University of Durban-Westville, August 2.
  • 1993: Seminar on the Methodologies for the Study of Southern African Literature presented to Students from the School for International Training, College Semester Abroad, Spring.
  • 1993: "An Historical Overview of S. A. poetry" - a series of five seminars at the UDW Winterschool, 5-9 July.
  • 1990: Planning of the series: "Debate the Future of Our University," 13-29 Aug.
Interviews:
  • 1998/99: "Onderhoud met Johan van Wyk" (Pieter Conradie, published in Karring 15. Somer 1998/9)
  • 21/8/99 Interview on Punt Radio on contributions to 24.com
International Seminars and Readings from Creative Work:
  • 5 October 2000, reading poetry and fragments of novel at Klub, Remedium, Sosnowiec, Poland
  • 6 October 2000, presentation on "Terror of Reason" at Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Centre (University of Silesia, Poland)
  • 12 Oct. 1999 reading creative work at University East Anglia (Norwich) 
  •  13 Oct. 1999 Anglia Polytechnik University (Cambridge) 
  •  University of Utrecht 
  •  21 Oct. 1999 reading paper on the history of the CSSALL at the University of Bielefeld .
Academic Books:
  • 1995, Constructs of Identity and Difference in South African Literature, Durban: CSSALL
  • 1999, Gesig van die Liefde: Ingrid Jonker. Author: Durban.
Volumes of Poetry:
 

 
  • 1976, Deur die oog van die luiperd, Kaapstad, Human & Rousseau.
  • 1978, Heldedade kom nie dikwels voor nie, Johannesburg, Perskor.
  • 1981, Bome gaan dood om jou, Kaapstad,Human & Rousseau.
  • 1996, Oë in ’n kas, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
  • 2005, Gedigte (1976-1996), Durban: CSSALL
Novel:
  • 2001, ManBitch, Durban, Author.
  • 2006, Man Bitch, Durban, Author.
Anthology Edited:
  • 1988, SA in Poësie/ SA in Poetry, Durban: Owen Burgess Publishers (Co-editor with Pieter Conradie and Nik Constandaras.
Photobook:
  • 2009 Trollop slaap te veel, 'n Kabelkarnimf Boek
Books Edited:
  • 1996, Rethinking South African Literary History, Durban: Y-Press (ed. with J. Smit and J-P Wade)
  • 1997, Usukabekhuluma and the Bhambatha Rebellion, by Andreas Z Zungu and translated by Dr ACT Mayekiso, Durban: CSSALL (Edited Johan van Wyk)
Chapters in Books:
  • 1996, "Afrikaans Poetry and the South African Intertext" (p111-117) Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution (edited by Robert Kriger and Ethel Kriger), Amsterdam: Rodopi
  • 1996, "Redefining Poetry: The South African Material," (p.931-937, vol.2) Language and Literature Today. Proceedings of the XIXth Triennial Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Brasilia: Universidade de Brasilia.
  • 1996, "Towards a South African Literary History" Rethinking South African Literary History, Durban: Y-Press. P.31-39.
  • 1997, "Hordes, Institutions and Intertexts: Conceptualising South African Literary History" (p57-68) from South African Literary History: Totality and/or Fragment (Ed. E. Reckwitz, K. Reitner, L. Vennarini) Essen: Die Blaue Eule.
  • 1999 Contributed item on Ingrid Jonker and acted as advisor to Killam & Rowe The Companion to African Literatures Oxford: James Currey.
  • 2000 Contributed item on Breyten Breytenbach in Dictionary of Literary Biography volume 222: South African Writers, edited by Paul Scanlon (2000) Columbia: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc.
  • 2003, "Zabijanie opowiesci. Dyskurs Kanibalistyczny w historii i literaturze ludu Basotho" (p.65 -79) from  Er(r)go 7 Teoria Literatura Kultura (Ed. W Kalaga) Katowice
  • 2004, "A custom he did not sanction": Texts by Ivory Traders, Isaacs and Fynn, in the Shaka Period" (p.76-88) from Ebony, Ivory & Tea (Ed. Z. Bialas & K Kowalczyk-Twarowski) Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego
  • 2003, "Eugene Marais, Deep River, translated by Johan van Wyk" (p,329-365) from Hermeneus (Ed. J.M. Zarandona) Universidad de Valladolid
Books Mentored and Edited as Part of Life History Project:
  • 2001, Z.P. Khuzwayo Never been at home, Durban: Published by the Author
  • 2001, Z.C. Mdakane No Way Out, Durban, School of Literature and Languages 
CD's:
  • 2001, Interview with Dennis Brutus
  • 2001, My Name is Angel
Video:
  • 2001, Stubborn Hope: Dennis Brutus: Activist & Poet As part of NRF IRDP project
Internet:
  • Monthly column on South African literature on electronic journal litnet (http://www.24.com)
Academic Articles in Journals:
 
* indicates accredited journals

 
  • 1983: "’n Ondersoek na die poësie en lewe van Ingrid Jonker I," Ensovoort, jg. 3. nr. 1.
  • 1984: "’n Ondersoek na die poësie en lewe van Ingrid Jonker II," Ensovoort, jg.4. nr. 2, Des. p.20.
  • 1986: "Julia Kristeva en die produksie van die poëtiese teken," Standpunte, 182, jg. XXXIX: 2, April.
  • *1989: "Klassestryd in H.A. Fagan se Die nuwe wêreld," Stilet, jg. 1:2, Julie, p. 1.
  • *1989: "The Father in Two Afrikaner Nationalist Plays by J.F.W. Grosskopf" Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, March, p.28.
  • 1990: "Afrikaans as Symptom-Formation: A Freudian Reading of ‘Afrikaner’ History," Psychology in Society, no. 14, p.17.
  • *1991: "Die tematiek van die werker binne die Afrikaanse werkers- en nasionalistiese literatuur," Stilet, jg. III: 2, Sept. p.51.
  • *1991: "Afrikaans Language, Literature and Identity," Theoria, no. 77, Sept. p.51.
  • 1991: "Power Structures at UDW" Mepu, May, p. 8
  • *1994: "Die Bakhtin-groep en intertekstualiteit," Stilet, Jg. VI Maart 1994, p.123
  • *1994: "Dream Writing," Alternation, Vol. 1, no. 1, p.21
  • 1994: "Inleiding tot die dramasemiologie," Karring 7, Somer 1993/94, p.24-29.
  • *1994: "Identity and Difference: Some Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century South African Texts" Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 10, no. 3/4, p.302-317
  • *1995: "Social Concerns in Afrikaans Drama in Period 1930-1940" Alternation, Vol. 2, no.1, p.51-65.
  • 1995: "Inleiding tot die Dramasemiologie, Deel II," Karring 8, Herfs 1995, p28-33.
  • 1995: "Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Semiology: Identity, value and the sign," PINS 20, p36-41.
  • *1996: "Poor White Satyrs and Nationalist Blueprints," Alternation. Vol. 3, No. 2 p 157-173.
  • *1997: "Catastrophe and beauty: Ways of dying, Zakes Mda’s novel of the transition," Literator 18(3) Nov. 1997:79-90.
  • 1997: "Beskawing en die etnografiese diskoers in die Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde", Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, Bundel van Referate Gelewer tydens die Sewende Hoofkongres, 18-29 September 1996. pp. 236-247
  • *1997: "Panel Discussion/Paneelbespreking" Journal of Literary Studies Vol. 13 (1/2) June p 227-230.
  • *1998: "Rituele van plesier: Dolf van Coller se Die Bieliebalies" Literator Vol. 19 no. 3 November p. 151-163.
  • *1998: "Volcano Needing Constant Watching": South African White Labour and Socialist Culture 1900-1924" Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 14 Number ½ June .
  • *1998: "Hedonism in the margins: Dolf van Coller’s Die Bieliebalies", Alternation Vol. 5, no. 2, p. 310-321.
  • 1998/1999 (with JA Smit): "Literary Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Culturelink Special Issue, p. 107-125
  • 2000:"’n Nuwe Afrikaanse Universiteit: Die Universiteit van die Toekoms", Fragmente No. 5, p90-95
  • 2000: "Centres & Projects, Three Centres for South African Studies, The Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages (CSSALL)", The European English Messenger Volume IX/1, Spring. p 62.
  • *2000: "Die aangesprokene in die Ingrid Jonker-oeuvre", Stilet, Jg. XII:1 June, pp.77-102.
  • *2001:"Teks, skrywer en die dood", Fragmente No. 8, 80-95
Editor of Special Editions of Accredited Journals:
  • 1998 Stilet, Jg. X: 2 see "Redaksioneel" (p. 147-148)
  • 1998 Alternation "Marginal literatures, Marginal figures and Marginal Genres in South African Literature" Vol. 5, No. 2 with JA Smit and Lindelwa Mahonga
Review Articles:
  • 1989: "Breyten Breytenbach, Judas Eye," New Coin Poetry, vol. 25, no. 2, Dec., p.51-54.
  • 1991: "Psigoanalise en lees: Joan Hambidge," Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, March, p.88.
Articles of Academic Interest in Popular Press:

 
  • 1987: "Gedigte vergete in biblioteke," Insig, Des.
  • 1988: "Swart skrywers in Afrikaans," Insig, Feb.
  • 1989: "Voorlopers van die Alternatiewes: Die Marginale Beweging," Insig, Jan.
Reviews:
  • 1978: "Definisies deur die bloed: Pirrow Bekker," Oggendblad, 30 June.
  • 1979: "Asiel: Everwyn Wessels," Oggendblad, 1 Feb.
  • 1979: "So is die lewe vir een pond sewe: R. Belcher," Oggendblad, 26 March.
  • 1989: "Aku vang ’n ster: Nico Luwes," Vrye Weekblad, 7 July.
  • 1989: "Die Koggelaar: Pieter Fourie" Vrye Weekblad, 9 June.
  • 1989: "Geslote Baan: Joan Hambidge," Upstream, vol. 7, no.1.
  • 1989: "Zambezi: M.C. Botha," Die Suid-Afrikaan, April.
  • 1990: "Paradise Redecorated: Koos Kombuis," Vrye Weekblad, 26 Okt.
  • 1990: "‘Porno Literature’ ’n teleurstelling," Vrye Weekblad, 9 Feb.
  • 1997: "De Weg naar Monomotapa: Post-Colonial Studies and Dutch Literature in South Africa" Alternation. Vol 4. No. 2.
Creative work in Literary Journals:
  • 1976: Donga, Sept.
  • 1977: Donga, Feb.
  • 1977: Standpunte 127, jg. 30, nr. 1, Feb.
  • 1978: Inspan, vol.1, no. 2, Oct.
  • 1978: Dimensie, jg. 2, nr. 6, Jan.
  • 1980: The Bloody Horse, no. 2, Nov.-Dec.
  • 1980: Standpunte 150, jg. 33, nr 6, Dec.
  • 1980: Graffier, jg. 1, nr. 1, Aug.
  • 1980: Graffier, jg.1, nr. 2, Dec.
  • 1981: Ensovoort, jg. 1, nr. 1, June.
  • 1981: Ensovoort, jg. 1, nr. 2, Dec.
  • 1981: Graffier, jg. 1, nr. 4, Aug.
  • 1982: Stet, jg. 1, nr. 2. Okt.
  • 1983: Standpunte 163, jg. XXXVI: 1, Feb.
  • 1983: Stet, jg. 1, nr. 2.
  • 1983: Stet, jg. 1, nr. 3.
  • 1984: Standpunte 173, jg. XXXVII: 5, Okt.
  • 1985: Skryf asseblief terug, Kruispunt 95, April.
  • 1988: Zuid-Afrika: een literatuur apart? Restant, XVI, 1.
  • 1988: Stet, jg. 5. nr. 2.
Plays:
  • Wieretuin, Upstairs, Market Theatre
  • Oudisie om die einde van die aarde te verhoed, The Laager, Market Theatre and State Theatre (Pretoria)
  • Sloper, The Laager, Market Theatre.
Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision
1996:

 
  • Govender, A Identity in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
  • Pillay, RV A Postcolonial Investigation of Constructs of the ‘Other’ in Thomas Pringle’s Narrative of a Residence in South Africa
  • Singh, H A Theoretical and Ideological Analysis of Literacy Programmes on the Labour Front in South Africa
  • Gounden, PT The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) in Literacy Provision in Pietermaritzburg
  • Dlodlo, MT The (De-) Construction of Race in Dr John Philip’s Researches in South Africa Vol.I & II(1828)
  • Mdakane, AT Towards the Post-Colonial Anthology: An Analysis of SA in Poësie/SA in Poetry
  • Masikane, ME The "Black Peril": Sex and Race in Sol Plaatje’s The Mote and the Beam
  • Van Wyk, D The Construction of the School and Education in the Texts of Selected South African Writers
  • Naicker, S A Narratological and Semiotic Analysis of a !Kung Shamanist Trance Vision as Reported by Megan Biesele
  • Majola, MH A Poststructuralist Analysis of the Chakijana Folktales
  • Radebe, NHS Literacy and the motif of Education in the Early editions (1903-1930) of Ilanga LaseNatal under the Editorship of Dr JL Dube
Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision 1997:
  • Ngejane, AC A Dictionary of Traditional Xhosa Literary Terms
  • Dhlomo, NN The Theory, Value and Practice of Translation with Reference to John L Dube’s Texts Isita Somuntu Nguye Uqobo Lwakhe (1928) and Ukuziphatha Kahle (1935)
  • Pillay, MU An Exploration of the ‘Soul’: An Intertextual Reading of Olive Schreiner and Sigmund Freud
  • Pillay, G The Apocalyptic in Selected South African Texts
  • Mkhize, EMF The Domestic Worker in Selected South African Prose
  • Ponnan, W Constructs of the Alcoholic, Tsotsi and Prostitute in Selected Drum Stories
Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision 1998:
  • Padayachee, N A discussion of Selected South African Novels with the theme of Miscegenation from a post-colonial perspective
  • Jadhunundhan, R. Classification, Narrative and Knowledge: Travel Writing of Francois le Vaillant, Captain Robert Jacob Gordon and Hendrik Jacob Wikar
  • Bhengu, HJ A translation of C.T. Msimang’s Buzani ku Mkabayi
  • Pillay, P Stand-up Comedy in South Africa: Its History and Influences
  • Mazibuku, JB The Zulu Imbongi of the Nineteenth Century with Special reference to Magolwana
  • Mahlati, NR SEK Mqayi’s Contribution to south African Literature from a Post-Colonial Perspective
  • Salukazana, NG The Image of Diviners and Herbalists in South African Literature
  • Kunene, SC Analysis of Masizi Kunene’s use of metaphors in the epic poem Emperor Shaka the Great
  • Sikhosana, ELZ Feminist Analysis of GS Zulu’s Text
  • Vapi, N Postcolonial Analysis of the Debate about Education in Gqoba’s poem "Ingxoxo Enkulu Ngemfundo"
1998 D. Litt Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Narismulu, P Locating the Popular-Democratic in South African Resistance Literature in English, 1970-1990
Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision 1999:
  • Van Rensburg, J.J. Marginal Activity in South African Culture in the Period 1980-1984
  • Mchunu, M.R. African Perspectives of Poor Whites with Special Reference to Works by Dube and the Dhlomo Brothers during the period 1920-1940
  • Lawson, L.W. The Occult in South African Literature with Reference to Selected Texts
  • Mtshali, NOP The Introduction of Literacy to the Zulu People during the Nineteenth Century
  1999 Thesis MA Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Sheik, A. A Discursive Analysis of the Literary Texts of B.D. Lalla.
1999 D. Litt Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Naidoo, V Magic Realism in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying (1995) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995)
  • Stewart, GDJ The Implications of E-Text Resource Development for Southern African Literary Studies in Terms of Analysis and Methodology
2000 Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision:
  • Amod, Razia Khatoon
  • Duma, Dumisani Hyacinth Gregory
  • Nayimuli, Samuel Tusubira
2000 Thesis MA Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Manqele, Bongiwe Victoria The relationship between the theoretical writings of HIE Dhlomo and his dramatic texts
2001Coursework MA Dissertations Completed Under My Supervision:
  • Cele, Alex Sfundo
  • Mkhonza, Sphiwe Albert
  • Mkhize, Chrezentiaclemjentine Zanele
  • Naidoo, Hoogantharani Lutchman
  • Phutieagae, Vincent Geremia
2001Thesis MA Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Pather, Nasan Mogabery. South African Punk Rock, New Wave and Alternative Music 1977-1989 (cum laude)
  • Ncube, Thembile Thembelihle A Feminist Analysis of Bessie Head's Oeuvre with reference to Migration and Psychoanalysis
2001 D. Litt Completed Under My Supervision: 
  • Smit, JA Johannes van der Kemp and Knowledge/Power/Self

 

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