A council of women
- Authors: Sobekwa, Lelethu Anathi
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , South African fiction (English) 21st century , Books Reviews , Diaries Authorship
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435988 , vital:73218
- Description: This thesis comprises extracts of life writing written in short prose forms. The work reads like a novella and I have been inspired by Margaret Patton Chapman’s approach to the novella, where she condenses “the telling of a long story time wise”, so that a story occurring over two years can be told over two pages. The thesis explores relationships between mother, daughter, grandmother and granddaughter, each with different life experiences and each teaching the next generation about how to navigate life as politically, socially and economically disadvantaged women. I have also drawn inspiration from authors such as NoViolet Bulawayo who explores the hypocrisies of the church and the government in We Need New Names. In Kate Bernheimer’s “Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale” she writes about fairy tales adopting “intuitive logic” or telling in the form of “this happens and then this happens” while the explanation behind the events is not spelt out but rather exists between the lines. My thesis adopts this style of writing by allowing the reader to understand what is being said without over-simplifying. To this end, I have used the concept of place modelled on Es’kia Mphahlele’s In Corner B, where characters are inscribed in relation to the spaces they inhabit. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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- Authors: Sobekwa, Lelethu Anathi
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , South African fiction (English) 21st century , Books Reviews , Diaries Authorship
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435988 , vital:73218
- Description: This thesis comprises extracts of life writing written in short prose forms. The work reads like a novella and I have been inspired by Margaret Patton Chapman’s approach to the novella, where she condenses “the telling of a long story time wise”, so that a story occurring over two years can be told over two pages. The thesis explores relationships between mother, daughter, grandmother and granddaughter, each with different life experiences and each teaching the next generation about how to navigate life as politically, socially and economically disadvantaged women. I have also drawn inspiration from authors such as NoViolet Bulawayo who explores the hypocrisies of the church and the government in We Need New Names. In Kate Bernheimer’s “Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale” she writes about fairy tales adopting “intuitive logic” or telling in the form of “this happens and then this happens” while the explanation behind the events is not spelt out but rather exists between the lines. My thesis adopts this style of writing by allowing the reader to understand what is being said without over-simplifying. To this end, I have used the concept of place modelled on Es’kia Mphahlele’s In Corner B, where characters are inscribed in relation to the spaces they inhabit. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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Esibelekweni: Ingqokelela Yemibongo ngesiXhosa nangesiNgesi
- Authors: Busakwe, Yenzokuhle
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Diaries Authorship , Books Reviews , South African essays (English) 21st century , Xhosa poetry 21st century
- Language: English , Xhosa
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424917 , vital:72193
- Description: My thesis is a collection of poems that is written in isiXhosa and English. It explores African spirituality, my relationship with God, heartache from romantic and platonic relationships. I make use of dual languages because some themes that I write about such as African spirituality I find words that capture their truest emotion in my Xhosa vocabulary, and I cannot find them in English. My poems use the narrative form because it allows me to tell stories through poetry without having to commit my writing to musicality or rhyming that a lyric poetry normally has. My work is shaped by writers such as Kate Beinhemer, Mangaliso Buzani, Amy Saul Zerby, Nontsizi Mgqwethio, Simphiwe Nolutshungu and Oiu Miaojin. Buzani makes use of images and few lines in his writing but still manages to capture a story with brevity. Saul-Zerby makes use of text lingo in some of her poems, and I make use of it to close a gap that I have identified with the books that I was reading that are all written in a formal and serious format. Mgqwetho’s poems explore Christianity and African Spirituality which is one of the subjects that my work is exploring too but in a manner that differs. I talk about how they have been my guidance instead of praising their powers like Nontsizi normally does in her poems. Simphiwe Nolutshungu’s poems has influenced the structure of my poems. Fairy tales written by writers like Kate helps my writing to bring to life issues that sound too dreamy to be true but have manifested as visions and memories that I cannot wipe out from my conscience. Oiu Miaojin’s novel “Last words from Montmantre” I am fascinated by how the writer detail emotions such as vulnerability and heartbreak in his storytelling. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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- Authors: Busakwe, Yenzokuhle
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Diaries Authorship , Books Reviews , South African essays (English) 21st century , Xhosa poetry 21st century
- Language: English , Xhosa
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424917 , vital:72193
- Description: My thesis is a collection of poems that is written in isiXhosa and English. It explores African spirituality, my relationship with God, heartache from romantic and platonic relationships. I make use of dual languages because some themes that I write about such as African spirituality I find words that capture their truest emotion in my Xhosa vocabulary, and I cannot find them in English. My poems use the narrative form because it allows me to tell stories through poetry without having to commit my writing to musicality or rhyming that a lyric poetry normally has. My work is shaped by writers such as Kate Beinhemer, Mangaliso Buzani, Amy Saul Zerby, Nontsizi Mgqwethio, Simphiwe Nolutshungu and Oiu Miaojin. Buzani makes use of images and few lines in his writing but still manages to capture a story with brevity. Saul-Zerby makes use of text lingo in some of her poems, and I make use of it to close a gap that I have identified with the books that I was reading that are all written in a formal and serious format. Mgqwetho’s poems explore Christianity and African Spirituality which is one of the subjects that my work is exploring too but in a manner that differs. I talk about how they have been my guidance instead of praising their powers like Nontsizi normally does in her poems. Simphiwe Nolutshungu’s poems has influenced the structure of my poems. Fairy tales written by writers like Kate helps my writing to bring to life issues that sound too dreamy to be true but have manifested as visions and memories that I cannot wipe out from my conscience. Oiu Miaojin’s novel “Last words from Montmantre” I am fascinated by how the writer detail emotions such as vulnerability and heartbreak in his storytelling. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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faces, disappearing
- Authors: Mbhele, Mbekezeli
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , South African fiction (English) 21st century , Diaries Authorship , Books Reviews
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424952 , vital:72196
- Description: My thesis explores township life through the eyes of a young boy, Sengwayo, whose life changes when a strange man arrives unexpectedly to stay with his family. The man is introduced as his uncle but nothing further is said about him. Sengwayo soon begins to experience visions and decides to find out who this man really is. His search for truth soon becomes obsessive and culminates in tragedy. As we follow Sengwayo in his quest of uncovering the truth it becomes difficult to differentiate between Sengwayo’s imagination and reality. This thesis collapses the distance between what is and what could be. It does this by alternating short sentences mostly used in the poetry of maskanda lyrics, and in the stream of consciousness found in jazz improvisation. In literary terms, the thesis draws influence from the rants and rhyme schemes of Lesego Rampolokeng, the tone and pace of Sony Labou Tansi and the surrealism in Mangaliso Buzani’s work. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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- Authors: Mbhele, Mbekezeli
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , South African fiction (English) 21st century , Diaries Authorship , Books Reviews
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424952 , vital:72196
- Description: My thesis explores township life through the eyes of a young boy, Sengwayo, whose life changes when a strange man arrives unexpectedly to stay with his family. The man is introduced as his uncle but nothing further is said about him. Sengwayo soon begins to experience visions and decides to find out who this man really is. His search for truth soon becomes obsessive and culminates in tragedy. As we follow Sengwayo in his quest of uncovering the truth it becomes difficult to differentiate between Sengwayo’s imagination and reality. This thesis collapses the distance between what is and what could be. It does this by alternating short sentences mostly used in the poetry of maskanda lyrics, and in the stream of consciousness found in jazz improvisation. In literary terms, the thesis draws influence from the rants and rhyme schemes of Lesego Rampolokeng, the tone and pace of Sony Labou Tansi and the surrealism in Mangaliso Buzani’s work. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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Lady Die
- Authors: Jephtas, Veronique Bianca
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Kaaps , Books Reviews , South African fiction 21st century , Diaries Authorship
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424928 , vital:72194
- Description: My tesis is geskryf in Kaaps en incorporate veskillende streeksvariante vannie taal. Die gedigte is hoofsaaklik innie dialek en ytie perspektief vannie spreker, Pamela geskryf. Tematies issie fokus die seksualiteit ennie inner workings vanne jong, bruinvrou wat haa feminine power probee assert in ’n patriarchal en invasive wêreld. Die bundel illustreer hierdie constant shifting power dynamics dee Pamela en haa vier boyfriends se vehoudings te examine. Wat vorm betref gebryk ek aspekte vannie zuihitsu, spesifiek die free movement tussen genre en styles: veskillende dele vannie bundel is geskryf as prose, poetry en kort, losstaande gedagtes. Ek kies die skryfstyl wattie narrative van oomblik tot oomblik die beste onnersteun, en beperk nie myself tot een consistent vorm nie ––oek kenmerkend van zuihitsu. Literêre invloede virrie teks is The Pillow Book dee Makura no Sōshi. Meer kontemporêre invloede is Kathy Acker, Marie Calloway, Nathan Trantraal en Ronelda S. Kamfer. Acker virrie manier wat sy identiteit illustreer, amper soese collage constructed yt seemingly unrelated stukkies teks en experiences; Calloway vi haa detached en unromanticised skrywe oo sex en vehoudings; Trantraal en Kamfer virrie manier waarop hulle universal stories vetel in ’n taal wat tightly bound is aan ’n baie spesifieke geography. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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- Authors: Jephtas, Veronique Bianca
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Kaaps , Books Reviews , South African fiction 21st century , Diaries Authorship
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424928 , vital:72194
- Description: My tesis is geskryf in Kaaps en incorporate veskillende streeksvariante vannie taal. Die gedigte is hoofsaaklik innie dialek en ytie perspektief vannie spreker, Pamela geskryf. Tematies issie fokus die seksualiteit ennie inner workings vanne jong, bruinvrou wat haa feminine power probee assert in ’n patriarchal en invasive wêreld. Die bundel illustreer hierdie constant shifting power dynamics dee Pamela en haa vier boyfriends se vehoudings te examine. Wat vorm betref gebryk ek aspekte vannie zuihitsu, spesifiek die free movement tussen genre en styles: veskillende dele vannie bundel is geskryf as prose, poetry en kort, losstaande gedagtes. Ek kies die skryfstyl wattie narrative van oomblik tot oomblik die beste onnersteun, en beperk nie myself tot een consistent vorm nie ––oek kenmerkend van zuihitsu. Literêre invloede virrie teks is The Pillow Book dee Makura no Sōshi. Meer kontemporêre invloede is Kathy Acker, Marie Calloway, Nathan Trantraal en Ronelda S. Kamfer. Acker virrie manier wat sy identiteit illustreer, amper soese collage constructed yt seemingly unrelated stukkies teks en experiences; Calloway vi haa detached en unromanticised skrywe oo sex en vehoudings; Trantraal en Kamfer virrie manier waarop hulle universal stories vetel in ’n taal wat tightly bound is aan ’n baie spesifieke geography. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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