Browsing by Subject "Hybridity"
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Castaways and colonists from Crusoe to Coetzee
(North-West University, 2012)Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the present, and the rational from the ... -
A comparative reading of the depiction of Afrikaner ancestry in two works by C.D. Bell
(North-West University, 2009)This dissertation investigates the contradictions and similarities regarding the depictions of Afrikaner ancestry in two works by Charles Davidson Bell: The landing of Van Riebeeck, 1652 (1850) and Cattle boers' outspan ... -
The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens
(North-West University, 2008)The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain moment in time. This concept of reality implies an ... -
Die frats as eksotiese objek : hibriditeit in Jane Alexander se installasiekunswerk African Adventure
(2014)This dissertation presents an investigation into the notion of the freak in the guise of exotic characters as these appear in the strange creature-figures in Jane Alexander’s (b. 1959) installation artwork African Adventure ... -
Die herskryf van die roman Die swye van Mario Salviati van Etienne van Heerden as 'n draaiboek, met spesifieke fokus op identiteit, hibriditeit en liminaliteit
(North-West University, 2007)This study explores the possibilities of rewriting the text of a complex novel as a film script. Film is an important contemporary artform but the actuality of the thematic content of contemporary Afrikaans novels is not ... -
Innovation in a hybrid system: the example of Nepal
(2012)The Nepali legal tradition is a legal hybrid in many regards. Nepal was not colonised by a Western state, and the Hindu legal tradition therefore dominated all areas of law until the middle of the 20th century. Since the ... -
The mélange of innovation and tradition in Maltese law: the essence of the Maltese mix?
(2012)Aim of this paper is to provide valuable insights into the Maltese legal system with a special focus on private law. The assumption is that this legal system is the byproduct of the "mixing" of innovation and tradition, ... -
Polyphonic conversations between novel and film : Heart of darkness and Apocalypse now ; Na die geliefde land and Promised land
(North-West University, 2006)This dissertation attempts a Bakhtinian analysis of the polyphonic dialogue between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Karel Schoeman's Na die Geliefde Land and Jason Xenopoulos' ... -
The (re)imagined self in Leora Farber’s series Dis-Location/Re-Location (2004-2007)
(North-West University, 2018)This research investigates how contemporary South African artist Leora Farber’s manipulated photographic series Dis-Location/Re-Location (2004-2007) visually articulates a simulacral settler-colonial narrative. More ... -
Die self as 'n hibridiese ander : 'n postkoloniale perspektief op die hoofkarakter in die film District 9
(2014)This dissertation presents an investigation into the identity transformation of the character of Wikus van der Merwe, the protagonist of the film District 9 (2009), from a postcolonial perspective. In the first instance, ...