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In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth
There has been a change of regime in a place with very different co-ordinates to the real world, and the President and his intimates - his chef, barber and portraitist - are being held accountable for their complicity by the new Commander. Each man in turn speaks of his appetites, the physical, the...
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| description | There has been a change of regime in a place with very different co-ordinates to the real world, and the President and his intimates - his chef, barber and portraitist - are being held accountable for their complicity by the new Commander. Each man in turn speaks of his appetites, the physical, the tactile, the hurt done by him and to him, detailing the intimacies of his particular embodied life. The significant woman in each man's life gives voice to the minutiae of pain, balancing melancholy, farce and horror, until all characters' voices elide in a whirlpool of personal and public reckoning, memory and desire. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8085 In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth Dovey, Ceridwen Creative Writing There has been a change of regime in a place with very different co-ordinates to the real world, and the President and his intimates - his chef, barber and portraitist - are being held accountable for their complicity by the new Commander. Each man in turn speaks of his appetites, the physical, the tactile, the hurt done by him and to him, detailing the intimacies of his particular embodied life. The significant woman in each man's life gives voice to the minutiae of pain, balancing melancholy, farce and horror, until all characters' voices elide in a whirlpool of personal and public reckoning, memory and desire. 2014-10-06T11:06:05Z 2014-10-06T11:06:05Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8085 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Creative Writing Dovey, Ceridwen In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
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| title | In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
| title_full | In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
| title_fullStr | In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
| title_full_unstemmed | In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
| title_short | In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth |
| title_sort | in two genres blood intimates and the smiths and the coelacanth |
| topic | Creative Writing |
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