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Before before & after after

  • Authors: Musavengana, Shelter K
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Short stories, South African -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5991 , 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.
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Bitten

  • Authors: Sullivan, Louella
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) , South African poetry (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African poerty (English) -- 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5994 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017778
  • Description: My poetry investigates the extraordinary in the everyday, exploring my life as a mother and wife, to find the quiet truths that lie there. Using fresh ways of describing familiar experiences, the poems describe tiny, almost-missed moments and voices that have shaped me. Throughout the collection, I imagine my younger selves commenting on my current self and vice versa. Ultimately, my poems use simple words and clean lines to evoke how I feel (and how I want the reader to feel) in each of the moments they describe.
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Dear space dad and other stories

In a town called Harmony

  • Authors: Tsibolane, Pitso
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5995 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017779
  • Description: A novella of crime and suspense set in the townships surrounding the mining town of Welkom Two friends, both ex-miners, start a welding business only to see it fail because of interference by corrupt officials To make ends meet, they are drawn into the world of illegal gold-mining, working with criminals who employ ‘zama-zamas’: desperate foreign nationals who are prepared to live and work in the abandoned mine tunnels underground The friends make money, but the dark practices of illegal mining put a strain on their relationship, their values, and their family ties.
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The barefoot road

A bone fragment

Crumpled hearts

  • Authors: Crain, Patricia Ann
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language -- Writing , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015676
  • Description: A middle-aged woman, living in Johannesburg, has an experience which catapults her into changing her life. In the process of confronting her alcoholism, she realizes how patterns of addiction extend to other areas of her life and tries to make sense of the tragic events that have occurred. Her world becomes a different place as she questions everything that she has been taught about relationships, religion, race and her place in society. In the search for answers she uncovers stories about the lives of her parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Embarking on a journey of discovery and rediscovery through her experiences and those of others, she explores the ways in which the things that she thought she knew defined her behaviour and expression of herself.
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Walls and remembrance

  • Authors: M-Afrika, Andile Ernest
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5973 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011940 , Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Description: This is a story of a quest that begins on a wall of history at a cemetery where Steve Biko was buried. The main character is the writer, who is partly the author, partly a fictionalised everyman. He is on a journey of self-discovery, while at the same time questioning contemporary South Africa.
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Counting planes

Dog wars : a Victorian steampunk adventure

  • Authors: Molino, Nicolene Chloe
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: Creative writing , Fiction , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5965 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001815
  • Description: We're in an alternate universe, circa Dickensian London. Leofric Lieven, a local crime lord, is about to find the past catching up on him. The Romany Carnival has come to town, and a gypsy woman, his former lover and partner in crime, demands from him a favour which will redress his betrayal of years before: he must secure a stolen object and return it to her. But things go horribly wrong when local delivery boy Cards Bennish is kidnapped by Leofric’s competitor before he can deliver the goods that will cover Leofric's debt to the gypsy. In this world, humans can shape shift into animals, entirely or only partially, dog fighting is the favourite pastime for high stakes betting, and power belongs to the highest bidder. The gypsy’s final bet, for the highest stakes yet, will seal the fates of a number of people, for better or worse
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Like Katherine

  • Authors: Morgan, Jane Mary Kathleen
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: Creative writing , Fiction , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5964 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001814
  • Description: Vicky, a thirty something English radio journalist, has moved to Cape Town to try and work out what it is that's missing from her life and to fill the gap. At first she thinks she's found what she's looking for, but a series of unsettling events makes her realise she has simply brought her problems with her. She goes back to England, ostensibly for work, where she is contacted by her stepbrother, Mark. They hardly know each other but he has a reason for wanting to find her. They meet and, for both of them, their encounters change the way they see themselves and their relationships. Vicky comes to understand more about her past and her family and, for the first time, to find a connection with her emotional life
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Planting season

  • Authors: Ntabajyana, Sylvestre
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: South African poetry (English)--21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language--Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5968 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002014
  • Description: In this thesis I present a collection of semi-narrative poems about a rural Africa that is a place of folk-lore and tradition, but also a place of otherworldly, almost grotesque, incident. My characters are, similarly, range in type, from buskers, to guards, school-children, paupers and tycoons. Through the work a place that is both familiar and unknown, common-place and mysterious, emerge.
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Portfolio

  • Authors: Hogge, Quentin Edward Somerville
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: Poetry , Post-apartheid , Environment , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5963 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001813
  • Description: My initial intention is to try to show how, as a poet in South Africa, I suffer from a creative identity crisis. I am a white English-speaking male. I live surrounded by isiXhosa-speaking people. Is my poetry, or will my poetry be, relevant in the ‘New’ South Africa? Is English, the language of the colonial oppressors, the appropriate medium in the post-apartheid milieu? Will my subject matter be relevant? These questions and my attempts at answering them, form the basis of the poetry and the portfolio that accompanies the poems. My absorption with finding a creative ‘voice’, my concerns with the environment and a questioning of what post-apartheid poetry should write about all seem a bit Quixotic, especially to me! But at another level, they are deeply serious. (p. 5.)
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The talisman

Who knew

Silence, like breathing

  • Authors: van der Nest, Megan
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , Diaries -- Authorship , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5980 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015246
  • Description: In this collection of free verse lyric poems I have drawn inspiration from childhood memories, as well as from the natural world and encounters with the people around me. Each poem focuses on a small moment, presenting an emotive portrait of a memory or an experience. These small moments lead, cumulatively, to deeper insights into myself and the world around me. The collection is divided into four seasons, in part because the work is strongly influenced by the natural world, but also because the progression of the seasons mirrors something of the personal journey reflected in the poems.
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Third crime unlucky

  • Authors: Cartwright, Robert Oliver
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , Creative writing -- Fiction
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5987 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015729
  • Description: This is a contemporary mystery novel set in the Eastern Cape. A town’s airstrip, situated between the golf club and the military base, acts as host to the local flying club and an active skydiving school. An amateur investigator uses unorthodox methods and the help of friends to find the cause of aeroplane fires and sabotage. His investigations lead him via geological research and insurance reports into contact with members of the aviation, property development and military fields.
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Touching Brýnstone

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