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The rooms we build: poems of place and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The rooms we build is my Master’s thesis in creative writing. My thesis consists of two parts. The first
part is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces entitled
“Letters to ...
When the village sleeps
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
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 ...
Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment—
which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh
in The Great Derangement: Climate ...
“A kind of symphony”: new nature in Jeff VanderMeer’s southern reach trilogy
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The Anthropocene is the proposed name for a new geological epoch that has come about due to significant human changes to climate and environment. In response to the Anthropocene crisis, this thesis proposes a re-evaluation ...
The buried chameleon: A novel and critical reflective essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The critical-reflective component of the novel The Buried Chameleon explores the
background to the writing of the novel, how I conducted my research, the challenges of
writing a historical and contemporary dual narrative, ...
Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, ...
Contemporary South African speculative fiction: A study of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection intruders (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Speculative fiction, South Africa, entanglement, social commentary, post-Apartheid, folktales, tropes, Africanfuturism, Africanjujuism, Mohale Mashigo
Abstract
Globally, speculative fiction is a popular genre, but it has ...
In-between: a collection of poems of loss and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
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, ...