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I am not a colour: A novella
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Nobathembu lifts her hand and waves at her neighbour. She is watering spinach in her garden
with a jug from a bucket. At age sixty-nine, her beauty shines. The sun is high on the echoes of
Nyanga village – echoes of ...
Lost on the way home
(University of Western Cape, 2018)
This is a novella about homelessness, and the forms of exile, loss and displacement that it
creates. Based in South Africa and Palestine/Israel, it is a story about four men who all find
themselves alienated and marginalised ...
Imagining what it means to be ''human'' through the fiction of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Through a literary analysis of two contemporary novels, J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of
Michael K (1983) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), in which a common concern
seems to be an exploration of what it means to be ...
Bab’aba - Ugly short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Bab’aba - Ugly Short Stories is a collection of vignettes whose function is to colour and
collage three portraits of Black women characters; namely, a rural woman (Nozikhali), a
township teenager (Zola), and a child/baby ...
The post-genocidal condition: Ghosts of genocide, genocidal violence, and representation
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
As a literary intervention, The Post-Genocidal Condition: Ghosts of Genocide, Genocidal
Violence, and Representation is situated at the intersection of genocide studies,
psychoanalysis, and literature so as to enable a ...
Townships, shacks and suburbs: An original collection of poems
(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 ...
Of flowers and tears
(University of Western Cape, 2018)
The collection of ten short stories, Of Flowers and Tears, aims to capture the events that have shaped my life, impacted on my community. It hopefully gives a voice to topics such as mental trauma, sibling strife, abortion, ...
Visual trauma: Representations of African bodies in the 1983 Contre Apartheid Exhibition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state
repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen
in the UN resolution and the rise ...