Browsing by Author "Julie, Lisa"

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    Re-imagining the Writing Workshop: The Creation of Multilingual, Collaborative Poetry
    (University of the Werstern Cape, 2019) Moolman, Kobus; Mpuma, Nondwe; Julie, Lisa
    �This string picture reminds me of a children�s game, called Cat�s Cradle, which you play with pieces of coloured string held between your fingers, and which you use to make different patterns by moving your fingers together in different ways. This string game reminds me of how language is used in multilingual situations, when seen from a multilingual perspective. When multilingualism is seen from a monolingual perspective, people see different languages, but when we see multilingualism from a multilingual perspective, we see all our languages as somehow connected. So, it works like this string game, they�re always connected, so the elements don�t change, the string is always attached to the ten fingers, but we, by moving the fingers, change the shape. So, by using a particular language of our repertoire, or a particular form of language in our repertoire in a particular situation, our multilingualism takes on different shapes�. Professor Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza at the opening of the Re-imagining Multlingualisms exhibition, in the UWC Library Atrium, 6 June 2018.
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    This Family of Things: Reflecting on the significance of objects in poetry
    (University of the Western Cape, 2019) Julie, Lisa; Moolman, Mark
    The creative project is a mini-thesis. It is made up of a collection of poems, titled This Family of Things. The collection consists mainly of narrative and descriptive poems which explore the relationship between people and objects and objects and space. The poems explore the day-today experiences of a mother and her young son. The poems exhibit certain elements of the narrative poem. The poems tell a story, and there are two distinct characters and instances of dialogue. This mini-thesis also includes a reflective essay in which I discuss the functionality of objects in poetry. In the essay, I discuss the potentially of objects in creative work. I discuss to what extent objects illuminate space and how objects can potentially disrupt space. I also discuss the separation of objects and things. I discuss creative influences and the various processes involved in the formulation of the creative project.