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dc.contributor.advisorMoolman, Kobus
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Justin
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-23T08:04:57Z
dc.date.available2023-08-23T08:04:57Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/10506
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractMy 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectChildhooden_US
dc.subjectTemporalityen_US
dc.subjectCape Flatsen_US
dc.titleIn-between: a collection of poems of loss and memoryen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US


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