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Bildungsroman writing by women in Africa and in the African diaspora
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The Bildungsroman has from inception traditionally been a male-dominated genre, but a number of significant women-authored novels written in the 20th century disrupt these established patterns. The thesis demonstrates how ...
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, ...
A cow’s meat: an original collection of poems and photographs that explores the influence of imagery in narrative
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
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 ...