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Name: Thabo T拧hehloane
Location: B Ring 71622A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 2772
Email:听thabot@uj.ac.za
About Dr. Thabo T拧hehloane
Qualifications
MA, African Literature (欧美福利100000 of Witwatersrand)
PhD, English (欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg)
Teaching and Research Interests
Research interest broadly includes post-apartheid black novel and representation of the township space. Research areas include Renaissance Literature and the representation of the racial other, African Literature, African American and Caribbean Literatures, and South African literatures. Marxist Literary Theory, Postcolonial Studies.
Developed research expertise in ideology of form and the making of the post-apartheid black novel. Well versed in following theories, postcolonialist discourse and representation of the racial other, masculinities, critical theory and Marxist literary criticism.
His teaching expertise is in the fields of post-colonialism, African literature, South African literary studies and culture, Shakespearean studies, Marxist literary criticism, Romanticism, the Victorian novel, critical theory, masculinities, African American literary studies and Caribbean studies.
Prior to joining UJ, T拧ehloane was a lecturer at Vista 欧美福利100000 (Welkom Campus) and at Central 欧美福利100000 of Technology (Free State).
Currently, T拧ehloane is working on an article on South African black campus novel in Mgqolozana鈥檚 Unimportance and Mhlongo鈥檚 Dog Eat Dog, an article on the logic and contours of humour in Trevor Noah鈥檚 Born a Crime and Tumi Morake鈥檚 And Mama Said and lastly a book chapter commemorating the centenary of Thomas Mofolo鈥檚 Chaka in 2025.
Publications
鈥淎esthetics and Politics鈥� in Textures (UFS English Department Journal) 1 (2009): 40-74.
鈥淕lobalisation and South African Black Political Thought: John Langalibalele Dube and Anton Muziwakhwe Lembede鈥� Alternation. 15.2 (2008) 91-105.
鈥淭he Tragic and the Comic: Sello Duiker鈥檚 and Niq Mhlongo鈥檚 Contrasting Visions of Post-Apartheid Society鈥� English Studies in Africa. (2010) 79-90.
鈥淭ragic Optimism: Utopia and the Apocalyptic Demise of the World in Duiker鈥檚 Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams鈥�. Research in African Literatures
鈥淢asculinity in Crisis: Ethical Abdication and Duplicity in Niq Mhlongo鈥檚听Dog Eat Dog听and听After Tears鈥�. Social Dynamics
鈥淵outhful Fantasy and Wisdom of Experience in Mzobe鈥檚 Young Blood and Duiker鈥檚 Thirteen Cents鈥�. Alternation
Book reviews
鈥淐ensoring Anxiety: A review of Peter McDonald鈥檚 The Literature Police: apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences. 鈥�Scrutiny.
鈥淕atherings of the fragments of memory: A review of Jacob Dlamini鈥檚 Native Nostalgia
鈥淢oral Dilemmas of a State Sanctioned Murder: A review of Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick鈥�
Supervision
Honours Research Essays
Ameerah Mookdam. 鈥淩e-Imagining Feminist Works: 鈥�The Devil Wears Prada鈥� and 鈥�Jane Eyre鈥�鈥擜 comparative feminist study鈥� 2020.
Kgothatso Madibana. 鈥淭he Nostalgic Longing for Home: The feeling of in-between and the cultural identity conflict due to the transcultural experience of the immigrant in NoViolet Bulawayo鈥檚 We Need New Names鈥�2020.
Sibusiso Nkambule. 鈥�Exploring the Representation of Radical Feminism in Angela Makholwa鈥檚 Black Widow Society 鈥�2020.
Bongiwe Buthelezi. 鈥淭he depiction of suicide in Shakespearean tragic plays: Antony & Cleopatra and Othello The Moor of Venice鈥� 2021.
Tshegofatso Phage. 鈥淯nderstanding the Complexity of Violence as a Reactionary Response In Sindiwe Magona鈥檚 Mother to Mother 鈥�2022.
MA Dissertations
Bayanda Yende 鈥淭he Value of the Student Voice and Experience in the Post-Apartheid Student Novel: A study of Niq Mhlongo鈥檚 Dog Eat Dog and Thando Mgqolozana鈥檚 鲍苍颈尘辫辞谤迟补苍肠别鈥� 2022.