I won’t be long

Mhlambi, Ntombi Kayise Millicent

Title: I won’t be long
Creator: Mhlambi, Ntombi Kayise Millicent
ThesisAdvisor: Wessels, Paul
Subject: Creative writing (Higher education) -- South Africa
Subject: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Subject: South African poetry (English) -- 21st century
Subject: Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63603
Identifier: vital:28446
Description: My thesis is a weave of short stories, flash fiction and vignettes of prose-poetry. It uses lyrical, scenic and explorative modes to explore the stories of women, past, present and future, from all walks of life. These women, young and old, struggle to find their way within a ‘world’ characterised as Salithambo (the pink castle) whose structures and survival preys on their bodies. The stories explore the themes of girlhood and maturation, violence (specifically against women), animality, scatology, time, gender roles and expectations, and their rejection. I draw inspiration, stylistically, from Irenosen Okojie’s depiction of beauty and terror in the same sentence; Selah Saterstrom’s fragmented plot and directorial stroke; Taban Lo Liyong & Amos Tutuola’s avant-gardism and amplification of language; Adania Shibli’s sensorial and spare prose, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Lily Hoang & Carol Oates’ normalized magic spell, Athena Villaverde & Espido Freire’s imaginative overload of childhood; Shelley Jackson & Chevisa Woods’ construction of body parts as bearing texts or as texts themselves.
Format: 89 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
Language: English
Rights: Mhlambi, Ntombi Kayise Millicent

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