Browsing by Author "Mpuma, Nondwe"

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    Around a Fire: Poems of Memory and Ritual
    (University of the Western Cape, 2019) Mpuma, Nondwe; Moolman, Jacobus
    This Creative Writing mini-thesis offers a deep meditation on what it means to speak to ritual and memory. The thesis is compiled from a collection of original creative work as well as a short reflective essay that present a critical analysis of the creative pieces in relation to the ideas I present. The first of these ideas being, memory as an encapsulation of the past, present and future as explored by writers such as W.G. Sebald and Toni Morrison. This collection examines an understanding of memory and ritual as being uncontained, as constant providers of stimulation for a range of literary responses. Ritual will be regarded primarily in the South African context where there is the intersection of the urban and rural landscapes both physically and metaphorically. In this regard I am thinking alongside writers such as Louise Glúck and Vangile Gantsho. The understanding of ritual is extended to the realm of spirituality where Christianity and African spirituality exist both harmoniously and in conflict. In short, the collection of poems and the reflective essay will explore the ways that memory and ritual interact in time and they will collectively contribute to the production of literature in South Africa.
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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.