Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Moolman, Kobus | |
| dc.contributor.author | Devereux, Stephen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-03T10:41:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-30T08:32:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-03T10:41:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-30T08:32:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | Magister Artium - MA | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16420 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Confessional poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Exile | en_US |
| dc.subject | Affective nostalgia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Identity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.subject | Memory | en_US |
| dc.title | Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa | en_US |