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Esibelekweni: Ingqokelela Yemibongo ngesiXhosa nangesiNgesi

- Busakwe, Yenzokuhle

  • Authors: Busakwe, Yenzokuhle
  • Date: 2023-10-13
  • Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Diaries Authorship , Books Reviews , South African essays (English) 21st century , Xhosa poetry 21st century
  • Language: English , Xhosa
  • Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/424917 , vital:72193
  • Description: My thesis is a collection of poems that is written in isiXhosa and English. It explores African spirituality, my relationship with God, heartache from romantic and platonic relationships. I make use of dual languages because some themes that I write about such as African spirituality I find words that capture their truest emotion in my Xhosa vocabulary, and I cannot find them in English. My poems use the narrative form because it allows me to tell stories through poetry without having to commit my writing to musicality or rhyming that a lyric poetry normally has. My work is shaped by writers such as Kate Beinhemer, Mangaliso Buzani, Amy Saul Zerby, Nontsizi Mgqwethio, Simphiwe Nolutshungu and Oiu Miaojin. Buzani makes use of images and few lines in his writing but still manages to capture a story with brevity. Saul-Zerby makes use of text lingo in some of her poems, and I make use of it to close a gap that I have identified with the books that I was reading that are all written in a formal and serious format. Mgqwetho’s poems explore Christianity and African Spirituality which is one of the subjects that my work is exploring too but in a manner that differs. I talk about how they have been my guidance instead of praising their powers like Nontsizi normally does in her poems. Simphiwe Nolutshungu’s poems has influenced the structure of my poems. Fairy tales written by writers like Kate helps my writing to bring to life issues that sound too dreamy to be true but have manifested as visions and memories that I cannot wipe out from my conscience. Oiu Miaojin’s novel “Last words from Montmantre” I am fascinated by how the writer detail emotions such as vulnerability and heartbreak in his storytelling. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2023
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  • Date Issued: 2023-10-13

Fractured flowers

- Cunningham, Cornelia

Along the river that flowed south

- Mohlomi, Teboho Samson

  • Authors: Mohlomi, Teboho Samson
  • Date: 2022-04-07
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , Books Reviews , Diaries Authorship , South African essays (English) 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Master's theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/234195 , vital:50171
  • Description: I am drawn to the longer story form, or novella, that can be read in one sitting. I relish the challenge of creating characters and seeing the plot unravelling and taking me into different directions, in a way short prose does not. In my thesis I experiment with writing the dead back to life, hopping between different timelines in such a way as to cloud the certainty of knowing who is alive and who is dead. My writing is influenced by the gender injustices we experience in our society. As much as writing fiction is not an attempt to fix the world, I find that where there is strife and conflict around me, my need to write gets ignited, especially when that conflict is about unfairness between the sexes. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo is the main inspiration for this body of work, as is Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Second Chances”, and Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo. In all these works, the supernatural interacts with the natural. I’m inspired by Lord’s humorous style of narrating and wish I could use it even while telling stories that otherwise have heavy themes. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2022
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  • Date Issued: 2022-04-07
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