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"THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT":
ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

8 September 2006

PANEL 1 A

Paper 1: Satara Ablort-Morgan (US)

Exposing Social Realities Through Television Drama: Teenage Sex and Prison Rape in Yizo Yizo II

Paper 2: Janine Loedolff (US)

Carrington and Strachey: Playing with pederasty

Paper 3: Mike Malherbe (US)

Art as Project and the Realisation of Sartre's Aesthetic Philosophy in his play The Trojan Woman

 

PANEL1 B

Paper 1: Charne Lavery (UCT)

Words and the World in Wittgenstein's paragraphs and Borges's parables

Paper 2: Cara Boag (US)

Seduction and the art of reading (seduction in text)

Paper 3: Almini Van der Merwe (US)

The Selection of The Man Booker Prize Winner: Mass culture vs. Minority intellectuals

     

     
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PANEL 2 A

Paper 1: Jacolien Volschenk (US)

Binary Oppositions and the Virus in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

Paper 2: Nadine Nykamp (US)

Plug and Play: Reality in Contemporary Science Fiction Films: The Matrix and eXistenZ

Paper 3: Carolien Heij (US

Vengeance, Fury and Passion in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume I (2003)and II (2004)

 
     

     
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PANEL 3 B

Paper 1: Janka Steenkamp (US)

Feminine Sex(uality) and the City: Women in Urban Space

Paper 2: Sarah Duff (US)

'not yet a man'? Representations of Gender in Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy

Paper 3: Jana Rademeyer (US)

Masculine Crisis or Feminine Statute
     

     
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PANEL 4 A

Paper 1: Karin Samuel (US)

Debating the Right to Fictionalise Atrocity

Paper 2: Jaco Smit (US)

Cooking Orah Leaves and a Identity
 

 

PANEL 4 B

Paper 1: Zane Arnold (US)

District Six

Paper 2: Kudzayi Ngara (UWC)

'Partial' Culture - Hybridity and Multiculturalism in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
     

     
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PANEL 5 A

Paper 1: Ryan James (US)

In Search of a 'Paradise Lost': The Utopian Underpinnings of South Africa's Tourist Experience

Paper 2: Themba Tsotsi (UWC)

The City as a Space of Multicultural Interaction

Paper 3: Tony Jacobs (UWC)

Rereading Nonqawuse's Dream as an instance of cultural cross-over: pastoral utopian vision in Mda's The Heart of Redness
 

 

PANEL 5 B

Paper 1: Imke Van Heerden (US)

The 'I' Online: Blogs and Postmodern Identities

Paper 2: Carla Potgieter (US)

God is a DJ - The transition between modernism and postmodernism in pop music, and the displacement of the "rock god"
     

     
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PANEL 6 A

Paper 1: Riaan Oppelt (UWC)

Contested Nationalisms
 

 

PANEL 6 B

Paper 1: Selene Le Roux (US

Lyric Representations of Political Change: Marvell's Cromwellian Poems

Paper 2: Zed Retief (US)

Images of Death and Ideas as presented in Ernest Hemmingway's Nick Adams Stories
     

     
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PANEL 7 A

Paper 1: Tessa Bavasah (UWC)

The narrator as an exemplar of resistant form in Ann Harries' Manly Pursuit

Paper 2: Carol Edson (US)

Death of the Protest Author: A Treatise
 

 

PANEL 7 B

Paper 1:  Natasha Himmelman (UCT)

Ambivalence: Searching for a Discursive Space

Paper 2: Vera Grønvold (US)

Living Other Lives: Subjectivity and Identity in Selected Texts by Nadine Gordimer
     
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