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Walls and remembrance

- M-Afrika, Andile Ernest

Authors: M-Afrika, Andile Ernest
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5973 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011940 , Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Description: This is a story of a quest that begins on a wall of history at a cemetery where Steve Biko was buried. The main character is the writer, who is partly the author, partly a fictionalised everyman. He is on a journey of self-discovery, while at the same time questioning contemporary South Africa.
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Date Issued: 2014

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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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Date Issued: 2020

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An analysis of the representation of sexual abuse in selected post-apartheid novels

- Fetile, Khanyisa

Authors: Fetile, Khanyisa
Date: 2015
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Sexual abuse victims in literature
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3822 , vital:20466
Description: This study examines the way in which three South African novelists, K. Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe and Sindiwe Magona portray the sexual abuse of men and women in the post-apartheid era. The novels under discussion are: Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) by K.Sello Duiker, Beauty’s Gift (2008) by Sindiwe Magona and Phaswane Mpe`s Welcome to Our Hillbrow. It will also look at the characters and the events to show that sexual abuse can be physical, traumatic and emotional, and that it affects both males and females, reinforcing in a sense Pucherova`s assertion that “both men and women are oppressed by a patriarchal heterosexist society” (2009:937).
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Date Issued: 2015

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A tribute to you

- Ndlebe-September, Thobeka Veronica

Authors: Ndlebe-September, Thobeka Veronica
Date: 2020
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- History and criticism , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , Xhosa fiction -- 21st century , Xhosa fiction -- History and criticism , Short stories, Xhosa -- 21st century , Diaries -- Authorship
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144989 , vital:38398
Description: My collection of short stories reflects my interest in narrative biblical fiction, allegorical stories about people and nature that resonate with our daily lives. I have been greatly influenced by writers such as Joel Matlou, Flannery O’Connor, Barry Gifford, Miriam Tladi and Leah Harris amongst others. I have also been captivated by fairy tales and folk tales, and also the work of isiXhosa writers such as S. E. K. Mqhayi, Madiponi Masenya, and Hulisani Ramantswana. I have discovered that I can borrow certain styles and forms of writing to enhance my own stories which are situated within ‘local’ contexts such as education, poverty, employment, the body, life and death.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Dog wars : a Victorian steampunk adventure

- Molino, Nicolene Chloe

Authors: Molino, Nicolene Chloe
Date: 2013
Subjects: Creative writing , Fiction , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5965 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001815
Description: We're in an alternate universe, circa Dickensian London. Leofric Lieven, a local crime lord, is about to find the past catching up on him. The Romany Carnival has come to town, and a gypsy woman, his former lover and partner in crime, demands from him a favour which will redress his betrayal of years before: he must secure a stolen object and return it to her. But things go horribly wrong when local delivery boy Cards Bennish is kidnapped by Leofric’s competitor before he can deliver the goods that will cover Leofric's debt to the gypsy. In this world, humans can shape shift into animals, entirely or only partially, dog fighting is the favourite pastime for high stakes betting, and power belongs to the highest bidder. The gypsy’s final bet, for the highest stakes yet, will seal the fates of a number of people, for better or worse
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Date Issued: 2013

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Crumpled hearts

- Crain, Patricia Ann

Authors: Crain, Patricia Ann
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language -- Writing , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015676
Description: A middle-aged woman, living in Johannesburg, has an experience which catapults her into changing her life. In the process of confronting her alcoholism, she realizes how patterns of addiction extend to other areas of her life and tries to make sense of the tragic events that have occurred. Her world becomes a different place as she questions everything that she has been taught about relationships, religion, race and her place in society. In the search for answers she uncovers stories about the lives of her parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Embarking on a journey of discovery and rediscovery through her experiences and those of others, she explores the ways in which the things that she thought she knew defined her behaviour and expression of herself.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Touching Brýnstone

- Woudstra, Ruth

Authors: Woudstra, Ruth
Date: 2012
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , Diaries -- Authorship , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2504 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015032
Description: Touching Brýnstone is the story of Beth, a young journalist who is troubled by misfortunes in her family and work circumstances. In a Pretoria library she is seduced by a book that consoles her and progressively becomes a fetish object. It sparks a journey to Japan, where she arrives to teach English. She is intent on meeting the author, whom she confounds with protagonist and book. This Bildungsroman is an exploration of the complex relationship between inner and outer self, and the struggle towards wholeness. Beth must find a way out of the obsession so that she can return to South Africa with an enriched insight into her shadow self.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Sarkaiym

- Sutherns, Michael Courtney

Authors: Sutherns, Michael Courtney
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5976 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012998
Description: The kingdom of Sansland situated on the Azanian Peninsula has been ruled by Sorricians, the sky people, ever since they landed on terra firma centuries ago. The indigenous population are forced to engage directly in the social and economic perpetuation of their own domination beneath the Sorrician heel. Until revolution flares in the antipodes, and soon, even the gods themselves seem to take an interest in the inevitable course of events. But all is not what it seems. The revolution appears to proceed too rapidly. The kingdom’s trade infrastructure collapses too easily. The Sorrician rulers are inexplicably and unrealistically confident in their ability to repel an attack on the capital. It will take a man of conscience, a regular soldier and a boy priest to restore appearances back to reality.
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Date Issued: 2014

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The barefoot road

- Dingle, Brian Clinton

Authors: Dingle, Brian Clinton
Date: 2015
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5989 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017773
Description: My novella is set in South Africa in a post-apocalyptic world. The drone technology theorised for the near future is widespread and scattered survivors live under the constant threat of drone strikes. The protagonist tries to negotiate these dangers and the looming threat of a slave empire to reconnect with his friends and family. He encounters bizarre hallucinations and flashbacks as a result of exposure to an unidentified gas.
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Date Issued: 2015

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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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The talisman

- Reed, Graham Conan

Authors: Reed, Graham Conan
Date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction , Short stories , English , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5967 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001817
Description: The Talisman is an adventure story set in a future where much of today's cultural memory and technology has been lost. Following a hunting accident, a young man named Forest survives a life-threatening wound and embarks on a quest for knowledge. Rising sea levels, bands of marauders, wild animals and the perils of survival in the broken world are not the only problems facing the survivors. The nature of the collapse of the society, what triggered it and its subsequent unfolding, bequeaths an existential quandary upon them that only Forest, and a rare text as old as the earth itself, can unravel
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Date Issued: 2013

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Secrets I keep

- Thurgood, Mikaila Rae

Authors: Thurgood, Mikaila Rae
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5981 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015638
Description: My mother had many failings. Her inability to cook. Her inability to work. Her inability to love. But her two biggest failings...those were the ones that had the potential to ruin my entire life, to ruin my brother’s life, to tear a family apart. More than anything, it was her inability to act. Claire is a young woman working in Johannesburg as a PA. She has few friends barring her au pair flatmate Beth and work colleague Marge. Her nights are spent trying to overcome the trauma of her past to find sexual fulfilment in a shallow world of one night stands. Whether she can set herself on a path towards a more normal life comes down to one crucial thing – forgiveness.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Kedibone

- Mokae, Sabata Paul

Authors: Mokae, Sabata Paul
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:6000 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020883
Description: A young woman from a rural village near Kimberley is killed by her husband in a fit of jealousy. Her illiterate mother is summoned to the hospital to authorize the removal of vital organs – eyes, liver, kidney and heart – for organ donation. But some members of the family feel that their child should not be buried with parts of her body missing. Thus begins a story that changes the lives of many people, both black and white, over the following twenty years.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Copycat

- Thomas, Adèle

Authors: Thomas, Adèle
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5975 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012984
Description: An exchange programme involving students and academics from Egoli University in Johannesburg and the University of Athens provides the conduit for the smuggling of Venetian Grossi coins discovered on the Cycladic island of Naxos. Thirty-five year old Delancey James, a Professor of Ethics at Egoli University, stumbles upon events associated with the murder of a post-graduate student. Through her investigation, she uncovers a web of intrigue that links the coin smuggling to corruption at the highest levels of the University, and, in the process, her life is placed in mortal danger.
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Date Issued: 2014

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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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Witches & villains: the nasty tales

- Dalldorf, Tamaryn

Authors: Dalldorf, Tamaryn
Date: 2018
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , Fairy tales -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63087 , vital:28362
Description: My thesis compromises a variety of short stories which are modern re-writes of dark fairy tales. Fairy Tales often explore the dark side of human nature and in these stories I focus on the voices of female villains and the strange psychology which drives them. I find Fairy Tales absorbing because they reveal the vulnerabilities, dreams and fears of the human consciousness. My stories contain some satirical expositions of human nature and society. My influences are the anthology of short stories, “My mother She Killed Me and My Father He Ate Me”, The Grimm Fairy Tales (original) and The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault as well as the writing of Horacio Moya, Angela Carter and Alissa Nutting for their dark satire and mockery of social eccentricities. Kate Bernheimer’s “Form is Fairy Tale and Fairy Tale is Form” is very influential in terms of the style it recommends in writing such as: “every day magic”, “flatness” (a form of narration), abstraction and intuitive logic.
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Date Issued: 2018

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A bone fragment

- Dyantyi, Mbongisi Orlean

Authors: Dyantyi, Mbongisi Orlean
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language -- Writing , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5985 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015677
Description: This novella presents three characters, each occupying a different sphere of reality. One is a ‘living dead’ who is forced to return to the land of the living for his continued existence. The other is a young woman who, having lost the will to live, must find a purpose if she is to continue living. The third is a young man who dwells more in the inner than the external world. Their lives intersect through the scripture known as ‘a fragment of a bone.’
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Date Issued: 2014

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