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- Orsmond, Joseph Granger

Authors: Orsmond, Joseph Granger
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144061 , vital:38307
Description: My thesis is a collection of short to medium length poems. All of the subject matter is sustained by reflections, anecdotes or stories. The pieces in the collection are concerned with experiences linked to the seemingly ordinary and mundane. In this regard, I am inspired by how Alan Ziegler (in “Tales of Teaching” and Love at First Sight) and Raymond Carver (All of Us: The collected Poems) find stories in subject matter which is so commonplace, that it is often ignored creatively. Likewise, the lyricism and modes of expression of William Carlos Williams, Federico García Lorca and Luis Cernuda have informed how I write and structure my poetry.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Crossing shades

- Singh, Shareen

Authors: Singh, Shareen
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145049 , vital:38404
Description: This collection of stories draw on culture, history, memory, musings and imagination. The stories are set primarily in South Africa but includes travels to other countries. I explore journeys to different worlds and minds. I challenge the reader to see how place and time influence our ways of seeing, living and evolving. I use different forms and tones that resonate with the subjective nature of each creative piece. My writing includes formal prose as well as works that experiment with fragments, vignettes and flash fiction.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Disco

- Trantraal, Nathan

Authors: Trantraal, Nathan
Date: 2020
Subjects: Kaaps , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , Afrikaans fiction -- 21st century , Afrikaans poetry -- 21st century
Language: Afrikaans , English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145217 , vital:38419
Description: Creative writing portfolio.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Falling towards the centre

- Maluleke, Vuyelwa

Authors: Maluleke, Vuyelwa
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142878 , vital:38125
Description: I am interested in the poem as a textual body that is able to collect the ruptures, silences, music, and wounds of the body, Ukuzithutha, in order to perform their address. I seek to assemble these disfigured and fractured bodies, of which I am one, onto the page. And thus create an experimental, non-linear lyric of repetitions and fragmentations arranged into a memory text, to hold these stories against what Audre Lorde calls 'the tyranny of silence'. My thesis is influenced by Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, 'for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enough', Claudia Rankine's 'Don't let me be Lonely', Sindiswa Bukusu's 'Loud and yellow laughter'. And Fiona Benson’s ‘Vertigo and Ghost’ whose form and lyric is a strong influence on the shape of the manuscript, and the construction of its mythologies.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Flying Cows & Other Traumas

- Twijnstra, Philisiwe

Authors: Twijnstra, Philisiwe
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145513 , vital:38445
Description: My thesis combines short stories and flash fiction and a short novella collection. Working between reality and fantasy. The collection both engage the strangeness of magic in everyday life and explore other worlds. The stories uses different points of view to highlight the impossibility of a single stable reality. The writing is heavily influenced by Amos Tutuola (The Palm-Wine Drunkard) for his big imagination and how he draws from Yoruba folklore and mixes myth to fiction. Mica Dean Hicks (Electricity and other dreams) he writes with simplicity and his settings always believable yet with one sentence everything becomes a different world of seen and unseen. Margarita Karapanou (Kassandra and the wolf) The tone of the book captured me, how she balances heavy social theme around a young girl, the tone changes from chapter to chapter - from surreal to hallucinatory to mythic to something in between all these modes. She writes rape, but not once has she mentioned rape, yet she is writing about rape. Some books that revolutionized the way I see stories are (Kintu) written by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and (Homegoing) by Yaa Gyasi. They both draw from histories yet contemporize their stories. Which my thesis intends to do that in stories such ‘MoonEyed Maiden’ and Sorana. Flying Cows and Other Traumas is an exploration of female body, when the sacredness of the female body is dehumanized by social injustices. Each story is a stand alone; the structure holds the through-line of the collection which conditions the complexities, the rawness and bluntness of how imbalance our society is. When the body is tainted with unfairness and powered down- how does one come up from that? The collection deals with poverty, sexual assault, systemic injustice, and sexism and some stories draw from personal experiences and fears. The female body is used as a hostage of shame and commodity and the female protagonists in ‘Flying Cows & Other Traumas sharpen their own stuff and shields to face their own injustices through blurring lines of mundanity and fantastical with experimental tone.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Investigating visual literacy development through advertisements: a case of Grade 7 English Language Teaching in Mount Frere District, Eastern Cape

- Mbuqe, Zolile Patrick

Authors: Mbuqe, Zolile Patrick
Date: 2020
Subjects: Visual literacy , English language -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids , Second language acquisition -- South Africa , English language -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs , Advertising -- Study and teaching , Visual learning , English language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143458 , vital:38248
Description: Although the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement lists visual literacy as one of the aspects of English First Additional Language in Grades 4-12, many teachers face challenges in teaching it. This study aimed to investigate visual literacy development through advertisements. Drawing on Cultural Historical Activity Theory, this qualitative intervention designed two research phases in which data was collected and analysed. The first phase, a pre-intervention, included lesson observation, analysis of documents and post-lesson semi-structured interviews. Based on Phase One findings and using advertisements as an entry point in developing visual literacy, Phase Two occurred at a change laboratory workshop and engaged eight teachers with the dynamics of meaning making and teaching. This data was analysed using elements of social semiotics and Serafini’s resource practices. The key findings are that despite low visual literacy understanding and practices, rigorous formative intervention indicated advancement in teachers’ understanding of visual literacy. In addition, through this intervention, teachers developed agency in dealing with schooling adversities such as lack of resources and knowledge hence further formative intervention research in visual literacy is recommended for both EFAL subject advisors and teachers.
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Date Issued: 2020

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It's my hand that wrote!

- Magade, Mncedi

Authors: Magade, Mncedi
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142551 , vital:38090
Description: This collection of short stories experiments with the idea of the text as it constitutes the world just as much as it is constituted by the world. These short stories use the text as a way to respond to struggles faced by people whose identities do not conform to society’s standards. The stories in here navigate between fantastic and experiential writing which allows the text to speak in its own language. The writing is influenced by that of Mthuthuzeli Matshoba for the realist approach in telling the stories. Ayi Kwei Armah’s writing in Fragments for experientialism that focuses on the dead and the living and which makes specific references to the idea of home – particularly for those who always find it hard to belong. And that of Bruce Sterling’s creation of explosive imagery in science fiction that sticks in the reader’s mind as portrayed in his short story we see things differently. Angela Carter’s brilliance in writing short stories and her approach to magical realism has also been a powerful influence. In telling these stories using a hybrid/fluid approach, I hope to come to terms with being a different “being”. It is to find ways of telling myself that it is okay to be queer, that to be a misfit is no sin. To say this in a language that gives meaning to my own struggles of being. This work is a combination of three disjointed moments of the narrator’s life experiences which are exposed in three sections; It’s My Hand That Wrote, (Un)Tying The Knot and Thoughts. The aim of creating these three moments is to let the reader dive a variety of “truths” of the narrator’s life, instead of aiming to achieve a coherent single “Truth” about one’s life. It’s My Hand That Wrote explores both the unusual and inconsistency of life in a chaotic but explorative fashion.
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Date Issued: 2020

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My crazy character

- Sojini, Lungile

Authors: Sojini, Lungile
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148217 , vital:38720
Description: My thesis is a metafictional novella. I am interested in fictionalising the processes that writers use when they sit down to plan, write and publish novels. Metafiction interests me because it breaks from the traditional way of writing fiction, particularly with regards to the appearance of the author in the fictional world created. Devin Gribbons’s metafictional story (titled A Short Story), in the anthology of innovative writing, 30 Under 30, was my inspiration for developing the metafictional approach to novella length. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Chief Fagunwa’s Forest of a Thousand Daemons, and Charles Bukowski’s autobiographical Ham on Rye, have for varying reasons, all influenced this writing.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Reliving it through pen

- Chidi, Tsosheletso

Authors: Chidi, Tsosheletso
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) , Northern Sotho poetry
Language: English , Northern Sotho
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/163566 , vital:41049
Description: This document consists of two parts: PART A: English Half Thesis (Creative Work) PART B: Dual Language Portfolio (Sepedi and English). This thesis focuses on witnessing the trauma of rape, inability to move on, denial and attempt to forget, it draws attention also to emotional abuse in a place called home, death and place. My work is influenced by Carolyn Fourche’s anthology, Against Forgetting: Poetry of Witness, Adam Bradley and Andrew Dubois’s The Anthology of the Rap, as well as Lesego Rampolokeng poem “Welcome to New Consciousness”.
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Date Issued: 2020

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The frightened

- Msimang, Lethokuhle

Authors: Msimang, Lethokuhle
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144004 , vital:38302
Description: My novella tells the coming of age story of a young woman battling the trauma of objectification. It explores the intimate relationship between a woman and a man, the young and the old, and the camaraderie between women. Having spent the greater part of her youth in various parts of the world, my protagonist faces the stark reality of returning home to her native country. This triggers an angst which causes her to leap between lived experiences and memories. An elegy on how difficult it is to love while dragging the long shadow of shame, it uses short prose and prose poetry to reveal the intimacies and intricacies of self hate and clandestine romances, and to unravel the complexities of memory and forgetting. Built from non linear fragments it seeks to refuse cliches regarding love and to question easy assumptions around gender, family and the innocence of youth. I draw inspiration from Vita Sackville West’s’ All Passion Spent , which eloquently portrays the placid and flickering thoughts of an old woman taking leave from the frivolity of youth. I’m similarly inspired by the sincerity and confessional aspects of Virginia Woolf and French poet and photographer Alix Roubaud ’s journals and Van Gogh’s letters, as well as Lydia Yuknavitch, Max Porter and Elena Ferante’s autobiographical fiction. I also draw from J’Lyn Chapman’s chapbook A Thing of Shreds and Patches and finally Dostoevky’s Notes from Underground , for their blurring of life and writing, and their exploration of grief and death as a lingering thought, together with the oppressive urge to create. In addition I’m inspired by the poetry of a new generation of South African female writers like Vangile Gatsho.
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Date Issued: 2020

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The weight of a tooth

- Perros, Robyn Helen

Authors: Perros, Robyn Helen
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144192 , vital:38319
Description: My thesis is a fragmented, non-linear novella, comprised predominantly of experimental prose- poetry and fiction short-stories. I have chosen this approach in form to further explore my interest in ancestry and trauma, death and image-making, “reality” and fantasy, and the tension these invisible barriers create between the inner and outer worlds in which we simultaneously navigate, remember and forget. This thesis has been influenced both in form and content by the works of Eduardo Galeano, Osama Alomar, Lidia Yuknavitch, Susan Steinberg, Claudia Rankine, Lance Olsen, and Yasunari Kawabata, among others.
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