2023-05-02 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept Afrikaans, Corporate
Researching shamanism and altered states of consciousness in literature
“The function of mind-altering drugs is to facilitate a momentary escape from mundane reality, to act as a gateway to spiritually inspired revelations, to access suppressed emotions or to help critique the social order”, said Professor Alan Northover of the College of Human Sciences, Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature, at his recent inauguration.
2023-02-10 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept Afrikaans, Corporate
Unisa author scoops two creative awards
Dr Gerda Taljaard-Gilson from the Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature was recently awarded the prestigious ATKV Prose Prize and the kykNET-Rapport Fiction Prize for her novel Vier susters.