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  • Reflexive Essay 

    Cornelius, Jerome (University of the Western Cape, 2011)
    His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after a ...
  • The secret life of doors 

    Meyer, M (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    This mini-thesis explores the poetic journey toward the subconscious images of an individual’s memory. It comprises a collection of 35 authentic poems and a reflective essay that examines the uncovering during the creative ...
  • The Sound of the Unseen 

    Horwitz, Samantha H. (University of the Western Cape, 2021)
    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 ...
  • The girl with the red flower 

    Misbach, Abdul Waghied (University of the Western Cape, 2017)
    For a woman of her age, thirty-seven, freshly divorced, she has, to her mind, not solved the problem of her sex very well. So now her work in the escort business all those years ago will be used against her. This warning ...
  • This Family of Things: Reflecting on the significance of objects in poetry 

    Julie, Lisa (University of the Western Cape, 2019)
    The creative project is a mini-thesis. It is made up of a collection of poems, titled This Family of Things. The collection consists mainly of narrative and descriptive poems which explore the relationship between people ...
  • Townships, shacks and suburbs: An original collection of poems 

    Khanyile, Musawenkosi Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2018)
    My creative writing full master’s thesis, entitled Townships, Shacks and Suburbs, is a collection of poems that explores the role played by place in shaping identity. Poems in this collection seek to examine the interplay ...
  • The treatment of Historical space in selected works by Thomas Pynchon 

    Kapp, W. (University of the Western Cape, 2004)
    The focus on space and spatiality is relatively new in literary studies and also not unproblematic. Problems arise from the way in which these concepts are constructed, described, defined and interpret~. It is possible to ...
  • Unsettled: A Collection of Sort Stories 

    Hill, Sandra (University of the Western Cape, 2013)
    Harriott is asleep under a jacaranda tree in her daughter's lush Escombe garden. Escombe is no longer part of the Natal Colony, the Natal Colony exists only in the minds of people like Harriott. Escombe, though still in ...
  • Visklippie and other Cape Town stories 

    Andrews, Hilda (University of the Western Cape, 2016)
    Visklippie and other Cape Town stories is a collection of short stories, inspired by my experiences having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s in Cape Town. This is a fictional work that, however, uses memory and oral history ...
  • We dare not say 

    Lange, Janine Carol (University of the Western Cape, 2016)
    We Dare Not Say is an anthology of seven interlinked short stories with the general theme of intergenerational trauma among coloured families in Cape Town. The stories are arranged in a montage of internally, variably and ...
  • The wedding interviews: A novella 

    Gabier, Muhammad Saaligh (University of the Western Cape, 2015)
    It’s quite simple really. During these interviews you get to talk about anything you like. I’ll ask questions here and there to help the story along. Just be honest and try to forget about the camera. We’ll use the interview ...
  • What lies 

    Cornelius, Jerome (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
    His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after ...
  • When the village sleeps 

    Magona, Sindiwe (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 ...