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Aloe and honey : tales from town and country
The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There i...
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| author | Mxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilus |
| author2 | Coetzee, JM |
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| description | The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There is a paucity of writings that endeavour to depict rural communities, and even where South African writers attempted to depict rural community, theirs has been an indolent attempt, as evinced by a lack of insight in such writings. One example is Matshoba's Call Me Not A Man. which is merely a glimpse into the rural setting. This shortcoming, coupled with a travesty of the rural setting, suggests a non-existence of the rural community. Whether South African writers, especially, Black writers, eschew rural setting deliberately or not is open to debate. Hence my project has as its paramount aim an endeavour to expose authentic rural realities. This collection, therefore, portrays rural life against the backdrop of city life. This paradoxical juxtapositioning is a deliberate attempt to enable the reader to extricate real-life happenings from both scenarios, and have a sound judgement about his/her observation. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9679 Aloe and honey : tales from town and country Mxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilus Coetzee, JM Galgut D Creative Writing The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There is a paucity of writings that endeavour to depict rural communities, and even where South African writers attempted to depict rural community, theirs has been an indolent attempt, as evinced by a lack of insight in such writings. One example is Matshoba's Call Me Not A Man. which is merely a glimpse into the rural setting. This shortcoming, coupled with a travesty of the rural setting, suggests a non-existence of the rural community. Whether South African writers, especially, Black writers, eschew rural setting deliberately or not is open to debate. Hence my project has as its paramount aim an endeavour to expose authentic rural realities. This collection, therefore, portrays rural life against the backdrop of city life. This paradoxical juxtapositioning is a deliberate attempt to enable the reader to extricate real-life happenings from both scenarios, and have a sound judgement about his/her observation. 2014-11-16T19:58:28Z 2014-11-16T19:58:28Z 1998 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Creative Writing Mxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilus Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| title_full | Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| title_fullStr | Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| title_short | Aloe and honey : tales from town and country |
| title_sort | aloe and honey tales from town and country |
| topic | Creative Writing |
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