Dance on the red-brown earth
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Date
2020
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Nandi, Java and Uuka are students at a Cape Town university, where they are enrolled in a
film making course. Adela, their lecturer, will supervise their screenplay and film on a story
which depicts the experience of the loss of land in South Africa. They are however also
deeply involved in student protests for free university education for all. When the
#feesmustfall protests reach a deadlock at their university and the university is temporarily
closed, they decide to leave for the Eastern Cape to look for a story. There they stay with
Uuka�s grandparents and spend their time trying to understand the family history and the
family�s ownership of land, as well as the broader history of land dispossession. They do not
only discover more about Uuka�s ancestors and about distant history, but also about
themselves. As the characters delve more deeply into the past in their search for a story for a
screenplay, the margins between their own stories and the screenplay shift and merge, as do
the forms of novel and screenplay
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Masters of Art
Keywords
South Africa, #feesmustfall, Uuka�s grandparents, land dispossession, margins