- Title
- The mountain’s calling
- Creator
- Mabeba, Motlatjo Ahsley
- ThesisAdvisor
- Bekker, Jo-Ann
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa
- Subject
- Diaries -- Authorship
- Subject
- Short stories, South African (English) 21st century
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) 21st century
- Subject
- Homosexuality in literature
- Subject
- Rejection (Psychology) in literature
- Subject
- Spiritual healing in literature
- Subject
- South African essays (English) 21st century
- Subject
- Nigerian fiction (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- English fiction History and criticism
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- Angolan fiction (Portuguese) History and criticism
- Date
- 2022-04-07
- Type
- Master's thesis
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232613
- Identifier
- vital:50007
- Description
- My thesis is a collection of prose – in the form of short stories, flash fiction and fragments – which explore the silences around living as a queer black South African who has been called to spiritual healing. I draw on lived experiences, dreams, imagination, and my grandmother’s folk tales to tell the stories I would love to have read when growing up. In my narratives, queer men navigate different spaces in urban Johannesburg and rural Limpopo. I am inspired by Bettina Judd’s words: “Writing is attached to the body… it is my Black woman, queer-identified, round-bodied hand that puts pen to paper, to keyboard, and creates whatever I create.” In retelling my grandmother’s folk tales with a queer twist, I learn from contemporary fairy tale writers like Kate Bernheimer, Angela Carter and Taisia Kitaiskaia. And in writing about the trauma of rejection by family and community, I am influenced by Bessie Head’s A Question of Power.
- Description
- Thesis (MACW) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (140 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mabeba, Motlatjo Ahsley
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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