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    South African Space(s) and Belonging(s). A critical analysis of Max Annas’ thriller Die Mauer in consideration of teaching German as a Foreign Language (GFL) within South African Tertiary Education.
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03) Crous, Mikhaila; Von Maltzan, Carlotta; Altmayer, Claus; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Modern Foreign Languages
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT : South African Space(s) and Belonging(s). A critical analysis of Max Annas’ thriller Die Mauer in consideration of teaching German as a Foreign Language (GFL) within South African Tertiary Education. Aiming to address the relevance of GFL within South African Tertiary Education, the focus of the following thesis is South African space(s) and belonging(s) as portrayed in Annas’ prizewinning thriller Die Mauer (2017). The thriller follows the perspective of various actors from different walks of life and from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. They are all brought together within the context of a gated community in a suburb of East London. Using Lefebvres Theory on the Production of Space, the thesis explores spaces and belongings. “Social space works (along with its concept) as a tool for the analysis of society” (Lefebvre 1991:33-34), so too, Wagner-Egelhaaf (2015:18) believes literature to be a seismograph for society. The thriller creates a space to which the South African GFL-student can relate, because it addresses so many divergent South African conte(x/n)ts. This is supported by Sarah Nuttalls (2009:11) concept of entanglement in terms of which “identities, spaces, histories […] come together or find points of intersection in unexpected ways”. Regardless of where the reader (or GFL-student) feels that (s)he belongs, through the various cultural patterns (Deutungsmuster) identifiable within the book, trans-national discourses relevant to the South African and D-A-CH context can be opened. The thesis addresses the hypothesis that space constructs, constitutes and assigns belonging(s).