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    Re-imagining coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa
    (University of the Western Cape, 2025) Price, Aliyah
    My creative writing project is an examination of my identity as a person of colour living in post-apartheid South Africa. I would like to look at the construction of coloured identity as many different pieces instead of a whole. This will be done through a collection of poems that detail the many aspects contributing to the creation of identity. This writing project will show my identity not as one entity or one thing flattened on a page. Rather the purpose is to reveal piece by piece the fragments of identity that have been pulled apart, both literarily and figuratively, in the attempt to create a sense of self. The goal of this project is not to remedy the pieces or attempt to reconnect them. The end goal of this creative project is not to create a holistic and whole sense of self/identity. It is to perceive and understand the pieces that have separated from the whole. The pieces of identity include both the physical and the psychological self. Each of the two selves’ birth different parts of the larger identity, which in turn form connections with the outside world. There is the connection between self and race which must then extend outwards and include whiteness and blackness and as an obvious result between the two, colouredness. There is the connection to culture, religion, community and gender. Each of these are fundamental in order to create a larger sense of identity. Each of these different aspects have been broken off from my identity and sense of self. They have each acted as shards and have come to grow in unnatural and unwelcoming places. As they have grown comfortable, they have proved difficult to remove and sand down in the reimagining of a new identity. The title “Splintered” refers to these sharp pieces of self both physical and psychological that have been broken into smaller pieces. In re-imagining coloured identity each of these splinters will be revealed and given their own freedom to appear as they would like across the pages of this creative project.