A skin that took them through

Kgame, Mbali

Title: A skin that took them through
Creator: Kgame, Mbali
Subject: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Subject: African fiction (English) -- History and criticism
Subject: Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century
Subject: Diaries -- Authorship
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147638
Identifier: vital:38656
Description: This project comprises of interlinked fictional short stories capturing experiences of the “invisibilised’’ young people- the street kids, drug addicts, cashiers, childminders, the sick, first graduates etc. These stories are a way to interrogate the fallacy of a “free and fair” South Africa by noting events taking place within homes, communities and countrywide. Told in a playful, innocent, curious, childlike voice and reasoning, my work draws inspiration from Werewere Likings ‘The Amputated Memory,’ for its ability to narrate the current without divorcing the past. I draw inspiration from Liking’s way of writing family connectivity and employing an emerging voice of the narrator starting from being a child scribbling to later becoming an elder. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s ‘Black Friday’ for scanning into young black people’s experiences in a society where their bodies move as misfits. My work also draws from Lesley Nneka Arimah’s ‘What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky’ for the interlinked stories. Lastly the stories in this project take from Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother for humanising bodies that have been reduced to frames.
Format: 155 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures
Language: English
Rights: Kgame, Mbali

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