Contested identities, race and culture: An analysis of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Roger Douglas, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and Negro Land: A Memeoir by Margo Jefferson

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dc.contributor.authorNamakasa, Sesilia Kasiku
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T09:10:49Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T09:10:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY SESILIA KASIKU NAMAKASA 219155038 JANUARY 2022 MAIN SUPERVISOR: DR. JULIET PASI CO- SUPERVISOR: DR. M. MHENEen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study analyses contested identities, race, and culture in The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson through the lens of the postcolonial theory. One of the main focuses of the postcolonial theory is identity, and it is identity crises which give rise to multiple and fluid identities. Through the postcolonial theory the themes of race, culture, hybridity, and double consciousness are addressed. The study is a desktop qualitative research, and it uses content analysis to interpret and analyse the chosen autobiographies. The purpose of the study was to explore, the construction and contention of identity, race, and culture, as presented in the three selected text, through the lens of the postcolonial theory. The study found that all the three texts that were analysed are testament to how identities were constructed during apartheid, slavery, or colonisation and how identities were contested in postcolonial societies. The aftermath of all forms of colonisation led to the rise in identity problems being faced by individuals in contemporary societies. The study also found that, colonisation impacted identities of both the colonised and the colonisers to a great extent. The study recommends that more studies analysing identities in autobiographies using the post-colonial lens are conducted especially in African countries not covered in this study and that the black man’s identity be analysed in other genres of literature such as poetry and drama using the postcolonial theory. Lastly, the study also recommends that more studies are conducted, analysing Namibian autobiographies to scrutinise the Namibian identity.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNamakasa, S. K. (2022). Contested identities, race and culture: An analysis of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Roger Douglas, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and Negro Land: A Memeoir by Margo Jefferson [Master's thesis: Namibia University of Science and Technology].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na:8080/jspui/handle/10628/1003
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNamibia University of Science and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.subjectcontested identitiesen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectliterature analysisen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonial theoryen_US
dc.subjecthybridityen_US
dc.subjectdouble consciousnessen_US
dc.subjectdesktop qualitative researchen_US
dc.subjectautobiographiesen_US
dc.titleContested identities, race and culture: An analysis of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Roger Douglas, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and Negro Land: A Memeoir by Margo Jeffersonen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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