- Title
- Diski 9 Nine and Other Stories (and Things)
- Creator
- Mahlabe, Stoffel Seshia
- ThesisAdvisor
- Ntshanga, Masande, 1986-
- ThesisAdvisor
- Wessels, Paul
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa
- Subject
- Diaries -- Authorship
- Subject
- South African essays (English) 21st century
- Subject
- Short stories, South African (English) 21st century
- Subject
- Portuguese fiction History and criticism
- Subject
- African literature (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- Ghanaian fiction (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) History and criticism
- Date
- 2022-04-07
- Type
- Master's thesis
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232283
- Identifier
- vital:49978
- Description
- My thesis is a collection of short stories that reflects the everyday lives of ordinary people. They touch on issues of morality within the current context, in such a way as to both entertain and educate. As a child I learned to imitate the wildly comical, sometimes dark dinoonwane and dithamalakwane stories I heard from elders. In my thesis, I draw on Amos Tutuola’s exuberant style of retelling Yoruba folktales and balance this with the languid candour of Jose Saramago’s Blindness. Stories such as Bessora’s The Milka Cow, and Micah Dean Hicks’s Crawfish Noon have impressed me deeply for their incredible, wild narrative strategies that still, however, emulate realism. Dambudzo Marechera and Can Themba are also present influences. Both have sprinklings of erudition in their writing, but in an earthy kind of way. Their writing contains transliterations that have a ring of the vernacular languages, an idiom that Africanises the English language.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (142 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mahlabe, Stoffel Seshia
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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