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Title
Post'exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7934 |
Date
2020 |
Author(s)
Devereux, Stephen |
Contributor(s)
Moolman, Kobus |
Abstract
Magister Artium - MA - This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town ('pre-exilic') to emigration abroad ('exilic') and return to Cape Town in late middle age ('post-exilic'). Themes explored include the deceptive nature of memory and the risk of imbuing a childhood recollected in later life with affective or narrative nostalgia; the psychologically dislocating nature of exile on personal identity and notions of home; and Cape Town as both an imaginary construct and a multi-layered reality: specifically, 'my' Cape Town ' now as well as half a century ago ' and 'other' Cape Towns, reflecting a diversity of highly unequal experiences within this city. The dominant mode of expression chosen to explore these largely personal themes is confessional. |
Subject(s)
Confessional poetry; Exile; Affective nostalgia; Identity; Cape Town; Memory |
Language
en |
Publisher
University of Western Cape |
Rights
University of Western Cape |
Repository
Cape Town - Theses and Dissertations, University of Western Cape
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