Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature

Ms UN Ngada

College of Human Sciences
School of Arts
Department: Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
Lecturer
Tel: 012 444 8814
E-mail: ngadaun@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • MA Creative Writing (Rhodes University)
  • BA Hons. Drama (Rhodes University)
  • BA Drama (University of Pretoria)
  • TEFL (East London Language Institute)

Currently teaching

  • THL1501
  • THL1502

Fields of academic interests

  • Different utopias and heterotopias in existing in South Africa and beyond through the lense of Literature and how new heterotopias are be built as a result from the paradigm shifts in a contemporary South Africa and the world in general.  

Field of Specialisation

Experimentalism, magical realism, writing for theatre, novel writing, prose, in-yer-face theatre, poetry, Discours on Deleuze and Guattari, Discourse on Focault.

Books

  • Utopia
  • 2.37: Terror in Resonance
  • Penetrator
  • Death's Other Kingdom and Other Short Stories
  • Dystopia: An Unquiet Mind
  • Skin: Anima Vestra
  • The Book of Atem and Other Plays
  • Shame(Less): A Play
  • A South Afri(K)an Psycho
  • Where Have All The Children Gone
  • Complete Stories

Other

Plays Written and Directed

  • The Unforgiven (2008)
  • The Book of Atem (2013)