- Title
- Chasing shadow and make believe
- Creator
- Mofokeng, Reikanne
- ThesisAdvisor
- Mason, Paul
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) -- South Africa
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
- Subject
- Science fiction, South African (English) -- 21st century
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63626
- Identifier
- vital:28449
- Description
- My thesis is a science fiction novella. It follows the story of an adolescent boy, Shadow, and a little girl, Makebelieve, in an ahistorical future. The world that they traverse is earth, after being nursed back to health, by technologically advanced Southern African societies. A series of inexplicable astronomical events leads to their being hunted down. Through the travels of Shadow and Makebelieve I show how the world and the societies around them operate. I am inspired by Samuel R Delaney’s Aye, Gomorrah and Derrick Bell’s The Space Traders, because of their prowess in world building and exploration of complex and innovative ideas.
- Format
- 112 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mofokeng, Reikanne
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