Magister Artium - MA (Creative writing)http://hdl.handle.net/11394/64622024-03-29T08:04:34Z2024-03-29T08:04:34ZA cow’s meat: an original collection of poems and photographs that explores the influence of imagery in narrativeDeane, Kirstenhttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/105252023-11-14T00:02:55Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZA cow’s meat: an original collection of poems and photographs that explores the influence of imagery in narrative
Deane, Kirsten
This MACW mini-thesis will examine how photography can inspire narrative in a poem and enhance the impact of its imagery. As I embarked on my journey of writing, I came to the point of needing to augment its effect. So I decided to experiment with photography as the prompt for my writing; exploring how photography can inspire a writer’s creativity, and help them to take their work further and deeper. One of the most important and impactful parts of poetry is its use of evocative imagery. A poet employs imagery in her work to add sensory detail and lyrical effect in order to heighten the reader’s understanding and experience of the topic at hand. Poets such as Angifi Dladla, Chika Sagawa, Max Ritvo and Dawn Garisch use powerful, sometimes strange, images in their work to provide a literary experience that would have an impact upon the reader. With this in mind, I decided to explore using another form of art, specifically photography, to help me expand my use and understanding of the way imagery functions in poetry.
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2023-01-01T00:00:00ZIn-between: a collection of poems of loss and memoryWilliams, Justinhttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/105062023-08-24T00:01:30Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZIn-between: a collection of poems of loss and memory
Williams, Justin
My mini-thesis in Creative Writing aims to explore memory and childhood through the lens of spatial and temporal consciousness. The vehicle for navigating these memories, whether individual or collective, real or surreal, is a collection of original poems based in and around the Cape Flats. Childhood specifically is the central theme of these poems, as it provides the basis for all the related memories in the collection. To me memory is like a map, dotted by landmarks in time. I will explore these landmarks in the poems to discover if there are patterns in the way that memories are made and stored. I will also explore changes in the physical environment – be these ecological or to do with human development – and how these changes intersect with memory. My aim in the collection is to channel the voice of a central character – a young boy – who is trying to find his place against the backdrop of the Cape Flats setting, while contending with all its challenges. My creative writing mini-thesis will also be accompanied by a reflexive essay that discusses the concepts of memory and spatial and temporal awareness and how these are manifest within my collection of poems.
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2022-01-01T00:00:00ZWhen the village sleepsMagona, Sindiwehttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/92002022-08-05T00:01:25Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZWhen the village sleeps
Magona, Sindiwe
This thesis consists of a creative and in-depth research component: a speculative novel, When
the Village Sleeps, and a reflective long essay. It is about a young woman, Mandlakazi, who
was born severely malformed, the result of deliberate invitro chemical exposure by her teen
mother, Busisiwe. Busisiwe watched her own mother raise three children with the help of the
child grant and decided that she would be better off financially were she to take advantage of
the grant system by having a disabled baby.
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2022-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Sound of the UnseenHorwitz, Samantha H.http://hdl.handle.net/11394/90062022-03-31T00:01:44Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Sound of the Unseen
Horwitz, Samantha H.
This work of fiction explores the themes of relational dynamics, oppression, intergenerational trauma, and the healing and self-actualisation that can be obtained by helping others. It incorporates numerous historical references that tie in to the characters’ stories or otherwise
enhance the narrative. The main thread running throughout the entire work is music. Music as cultural signifier, cultural anchor and identifier, and particularly, musical terminology as chapter titles because of how perfectly such terms capture mood, direction, or intent for each
chapter. It is crucial to note that while all the characters in the stories that follow are fictitious, the historical events and places are represented as accurately as possible according to extensive research. One historical figure, Tomás de Torquemada, is fictionalized herein, but his role is accurately representative of the role he played historically. Other historical figures, Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Beer, have been fictionalized in relation to characters in the story, yet their depictions as musicians are accurate. And Anna is based on an historical
figure from the Polish Jewish Resistance; however, her relational story is fictionalised.
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