- Title
- Memory of a dead river
- Creator
- Mayo, Thandokazi
- ThesisAdvisor
- Wessels, Paul
- Subject
- Short stories, South African (English)
- Subject
- South African (English)
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/92364
- Identifier
- vital:30716
- Description
- My thesis is a collection of short stories that tap into cultural, literal references, both oral andvisual, and also draws on images I have seen and have struggled to get out of my head. The collection draws on Alissa Nutting’s distorted realism and Noy Holland’s evocative imagery to make even the most mundane things feel like something out of the ordinary. An unreal way of looking at real things. The stories are interrelated only insofar as they seek to normalise or neutralise the peculiarity of society’s seemingly outdated people who come from the rural areas. Their faces, their stories, their general mannerisms. To capture the tone of their emotions, their small plights, and to give an in-depth look into how where you are affects the very shape of your face.
- Format
- 60 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mayo, Thandokazi
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