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Glass Tower
“Glass Tower” is a story about a growing friendship between Leilah and Frankie, two teenage newcomers to a middleclass government school in Durban, South Africa. It's set in the late 1990's, a period of flux following the country's first democratic election, and it's within this context of social ch...
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| author | Isaacs, Sarah |
| author2 | Evans, Martha |
| author_browse | Evans, Martha Isaacs, Sarah |
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| description | “Glass Tower” is a story about a growing friendship between Leilah and Frankie, two teenage newcomers to a middleclass government school in Durban, South Africa. It's set in the late 1990's, a period of flux following the country's first democratic election, and it's within this context of social change and discomfort that these two very different outsiders come to grips with their changing bodies and place in the world. Bound together by loneliness, and a joint curiosity in their burgeoning sexuality, Leilah and Frankie come to share their deepest secrets with one another. It's an unveiling that stretches the limits of their friendship and pushes Leilah to discover parts of herself that without Frankie she would have left in the dark. Issues of race and sexual abuse are raised, but it is the affection between these two characters, and the discoveries they make as they learn and teach one another, that drives the story forward. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37317 Glass Tower Isaacs, Sarah Evans, Martha Creative Writing “Glass Tower” is a story about a growing friendship between Leilah and Frankie, two teenage newcomers to a middleclass government school in Durban, South Africa. It's set in the late 1990's, a period of flux following the country's first democratic election, and it's within this context of social change and discomfort that these two very different outsiders come to grips with their changing bodies and place in the world. Bound together by loneliness, and a joint curiosity in their burgeoning sexuality, Leilah and Frankie come to share their deepest secrets with one another. It's an unveiling that stretches the limits of their friendship and pushes Leilah to discover parts of herself that without Frankie she would have left in the dark. Issues of race and sexual abuse are raised, but it is the affection between these two characters, and the discoveries they make as they learn and teach one another, that drives the story forward. 2023-03-07T11:18:20Z 2023-03-07T11:18:20Z 2022 2023-02-20T12:57:45Z Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37317 eng application/pdf School of Languages and Literatures Faculty of Humanities |
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| title | Glass Tower |
| title_full | Glass Tower |
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| title_short | Glass Tower |
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| topic | Creative Writing |
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