Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorMoolman, Kobus
dc.contributor.authorDevereux, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-03T10:41:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T08:32:25Z
dc.date.available2021-03-03T10:41:23Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T08:32:25Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape Town in late middle age (‘post-exilic’). Themes explored include the deceptive nature of memory and the risk of imbuing a childhood recollected in later life with affective or narrative nostalgia; the psychologically dislocating nature of exile on personal identity and notions of home; and Cape Town as both an imaginary construct and a multi-layered reality: specifically, ‘my’ Cape Town – now as well as half a century ago – and ‘other’ Cape Towns, reflecting a diversity of highly unequal experiences within this city. The dominant mode of expression chosen to explore these largely personal themes is confessional.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16420
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectConfessional poetryen_US
dc.subjectExileen_US
dc.subjectAffective nostalgiaen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.titlePost–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africaen_US

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