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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Along the river that flowed south
- Authors: Mohlomi, Teboho Samson
- Date: 2022-04-07
- Subjects: South African fiction (English) 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Books Reviews , Diaries Authorship , South African essays (English) 21st century
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/234195 , vital:50171
- Description: I am drawn to the longer story form, or novella, that can be read in one sitting. I relish the challenge of creating characters and seeing the plot unravelling and taking me into different directions, in a way short prose does not. In my thesis I experiment with writing the dead back to life, hopping between different timelines in such a way as to cloud the certainty of knowing who is alive and who is dead. My writing is influenced by the gender injustices we experience in our society. As much as writing fiction is not an attempt to fix the world, I find that where there is strife and conflict around me, my need to write gets ignited, especially when that conflict is about unfairness between the sexes. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo is the main inspiration for this body of work, as is Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Second Chances”, and Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo. In all these works, the supernatural interacts with the natural. I’m inspired by Lord’s humorous style of narrating and wish I could use it even while telling stories that otherwise have heavy themes. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2022
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- Authors: Mohlomi, Teboho Samson
- Date: 2022-04-07
- Subjects: South African fiction (English) 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Books Reviews , Diaries Authorship , South African essays (English) 21st century
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/234195 , vital:50171
- Description: I am drawn to the longer story form, or novella, that can be read in one sitting. I relish the challenge of creating characters and seeing the plot unravelling and taking me into different directions, in a way short prose does not. In my thesis I experiment with writing the dead back to life, hopping between different timelines in such a way as to cloud the certainty of knowing who is alive and who is dead. My writing is influenced by the gender injustices we experience in our society. As much as writing fiction is not an attempt to fix the world, I find that where there is strife and conflict around me, my need to write gets ignited, especially when that conflict is about unfairness between the sexes. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo is the main inspiration for this body of work, as is Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Second Chances”, and Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo. In all these works, the supernatural interacts with the natural. I’m inspired by Lord’s humorous style of narrating and wish I could use it even while telling stories that otherwise have heavy themes. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2022
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