- Title
- Before before & after after
- Creator
- Musavengana, Shelter K
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
- Subject
- Short stories, South African -- 21st century
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education)
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:5991
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017775
- Description
- The stories in this collection explore the fantastical, the power of memory, and the human capacity to love. Moving between the surreal, the absurd, the allegorical, and the metafictional, they elaborate on life's ordinary madness and the mysteries of the spirit. By challenging the either/or boundaries of the binary of realism and fantasy, the stories provoke the reader to engage actively with the text. Influenced by experimental US author Stacey Levine, the mid‐century British novelist Barbara Comyns, and the adventurous Chinese writer Can Xue, in most cases, they create a playful, experimental world that exists at a slight angle to the world as we know it.
- Format
- 93 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Musavengana, Shelter K
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