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Padmaker
Includes bibliographical references.
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Department of English Language and Literature
2014
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| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Le Roux, Cornelia Christina |
| author2 | Van Heerden, Etienne |
| author_browse | Le Roux, Cornelia Christina Van Heerden, Etienne |
| author_facet | Van Heerden, Etienne Le Roux, Cornelia Christina |
| author_sort | Le Roux, Cornelia Christina |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10700 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | afr |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | Department of English Language and Literature |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10700 Padmaker Le Roux, Cornelia Christina Van Heerden, Etienne Creative Writing Includes bibliographical references. This novel narrates the lives of the white working class in the years following 1950. It is a fictionalised autobiography which, as an ego document, narrates the experiences of a family of "padmakers" (road builders). These blue-collar workers built and maintained South Africa's roads in the years between 1951 and 1980 and lived transient lives, moving from town to town, unsettling their families. The author, being the child of one such a family, researched the craft of road building extensively and brings to the story the textures and living conditions of the nomadic, marginalized existences of families in the road camps of those years. The protagonist in the novel is an adult woman journeying through the countryside, researching her past, worrying about the veracity of memory, and trying to understand her own childhood trauma within her family. She remembers her father as the hardworking, approachable parent in whom she found comfort and solace. Despite his own burdens - especially an accident in which a child was killed with a road grader ~ he tried to lighten the household where his dysfunctional wife ruled. During her journey - both literal and figurative - the protagonist learns about the destructive and complicated condition - Munchaussen Syndrome - her mother had always suffered from. Learning more and more about herself and discovering the past and the influence it had on her as an adult, the protagonist comes to an understanding of her mother. 2014-12-31T19:32:23Z 2014-12-31T19:32:23Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10700 afr application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Creative Writing Le Roux, Cornelia Christina Padmaker |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Padmaker |
| title_full | Padmaker |
| title_fullStr | Padmaker |
| title_full_unstemmed | Padmaker |
| title_short | Padmaker |
| title_sort | padmaker |
| topic | Creative Writing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10700 |
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